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"You're a stranger, young man, that's plain to see. 'Tis a true story enough, and not so long since it all happened neither." "Fourteen years," says Antti, knocking the ashes from his pipe. "I remember it all as plain as yesterday. Ay, there's queer things happen in life." "Did you see it yourself, then?" "Ay, I did that and not likely to forget it.
"Give him to me!" cried Olof, stretching out his arms impatiently. And Kyllikki smiled and handed him a tiny bundle wrapped in woollen rugs. Olof's hands trembled as he felt the weight of it in his arms. "Help her down, Antti; and come back a little later on I won't ask you in not just now," he said confusedly to the driver. The man laughed, and Kyllikki joined in.
"'Twas Antti she was staring at that'll be it," laughed one. "You must have been a fine young fellow those days, Antti!" "You keep your tongue between your teeth, young fellow; 'tis no laughing matter I'm telling you." The men looked at one another, and nodded. A faint breath of wind sighed through the trees on the slope, a pair of twin stems creaked one against the other with a melancholy sound.
"And then we go on our way. But when we've got a few paces off, I turn round suddenly and say, 'Here, you, Heikki, give us a bit of a sermon for the young lady. 'Tis just the place for church. "'H'm, says Heikki. 'I doubt it wouldn't do. "''Twill please her, for sure I'll answer for that, say I. 'And you do it better than anything else. Antti can help with the service.
"'Yes, yes! cry the others. 'If she's wanting to see things out here. Sermon, Heikki! "Heikki climbs up on a big rock, and Antti on a tree stump, and Heikki starts off, grumbling out just like the priest at Kakela. "'Is any soul from Keituri here in church to-day? "'Ay, lord and noble master, here be I, says Antti in a deep base that goes rumbling through the woods.
The Perakorpi road is already begun. And then some bad news the drainage business looks like being given up altogether just when everything was ready, and we were going to start. Just quarrelling and jealousy among the people round real peasant obstinacy, and of course with Tapola Antti at the head. A miserable lot! I should like to knock some of them down.
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