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After that she walked around and awakened Yksi and Kaksi, Kolme and Neljä, Viisi and Kuusi, and, last of all, she gave Thumbietot a nudge with her bill that startled him. "What is it, Mother Akka?" he asked, springing up in alarm. "Nothing serious," assured the leader-goose.
The boy had a good mind to awaken them, but he let them sleep on, and walked away. In the next brush he saw Viisi and Kuusi, and not far from them he found Yksi and Kaksi. All four were asleep, and the boy passed by without disturbing them. As he approached the next brush, he thought he saw something white shimmering among the bushes, and the heart of him thumped with joy.
He was so positive that he had really seen what he had seen, that no one could move him from this conviction. He went about so disconsolate that his travelling companions became uneasy for him. Just as the boy was the most depressed, old Kaksi came back to the flock.
The boy and the geese had barely raised themselves into the air, when they caught a glimpse of a high mountain, with almost perpendicular walls, and an abrupt, broken-off top; and they understood that this must be Taberg. On the summit stood Akka, with Yksi and Kaksi, Kolmi and Neljä, Viisi and Knusi, and all six goslings and waited for them.
Yes, there were Akka, Iksi, Kolmi, Nelja, Viisi, Knusi, all the six goslings, the goosey-gander, Dunfin and Thumbietot; but Kaksi from Nuolja, the first left-hand goose, was missing and no one knew anything about her fate. When the wild geese discovered that no one but Kaksi had been separated from the flock, they took the matter lightly. Kaksi was old and wise.
He shouted "hurrah" until it was strange that they did not hear him in the houses but they didn't, and he hurried back to the wild geese, out in the wet morass, as fast as his legs could carry him. Thursday, March thirty-first. The following day the wild geese intended to travel northward through Allbo district, in Småland. They sent Iksi and Kaksi to spy out the land.
Akka shot toward the heights as fast as she could, and the flock followed with the greatest possible speed. The wild geese got safely out of the way, but the boy couldn't get over his amazement. "To think that anyone could wish to shoot upon such as Akka and Yksi and Kaksi and the goosey-gander and the others! Human beings had no conception of what they did."
g, when followed by e, i, y, ä, ö, is also like y. Example, Göta is pronounced Yöta. When g is followed by a, o, u, or å, it is hard, as in go. k is hard when it precedes a, o, u, or å. Example, Kaksi, Kolmi, etc. ä is pronounced like ä in fare. Example, Färs. There is no sound in the English language which corresponds to the Swedish ö. It is like the French eu in jeu.
It was only upon the eyes that time had had no effect. They shone brighter as if they were younger than any of the others! She turned, very haughtily, toward the goosey-gander. "Understand, Mr. Tame-goose, that I am Akka from Kebnekaise! And that the goose who flies nearest me to the right is Iksi from Vassijaure, and the one to the left, is Kaksi from Nuolja!
He does not understand us: we do not understand him!" Then the boy rose and went over to Akka; he stroked her and patted her. He did the same to Yksi and Kaksi, Kolme and Neljä, Viisi and Kuusi the old birds who had been his companions from the very start. After that he walked farther up the strand.
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