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He could follow her individual step, which was light as a child's, and yet sounded so old right to the end of the tunnel. Then he went into the children's room and pulled out the third drawer in the chest of drawers. There she always hid her money-box, wrapped up in her linen. He still possessed two kroner, which he inserted in the box. He used always to pay her in this way.
In the course of the summer she managed to marry off the two older girls, and the two younger ones she sent to America, where they had relatives who were well-to-do. All the sisters received their proportion of the inheritance, which amounted to twenty thousand kroner each. The farm had been left to Karin, with the understanding that young Ingmar was to take it over when he became of age.
He had not paid the latest instalment due, and he had not done well with the winter stone-breaking, which from year to year had helped him over the worst. He had not sufficient strength for all that fell to his lot. But he was plucky. "What does it matter if I'm a few hundred kroner in arrears when I have improved the property to the tune of several thousand?" he would say.
"What was I going to say now?... What is he paying for the work?" "I don't know." But Grindhusen looks at me suspiciously, thinking it is only that I will not say. "Ay, well, 'tis all the same to me," he says. "I was only asking." To please him, I try to guess a wage. "I dare say he'll give me a couple of Kroner a day, or perhaps three, d'you think?" "Ay, dare say you may," he answers enviously.
Out of sheer compassion they let me stay till Karna had fought out her fight and was happily buried in the earth every one could see it wasn't a matter of many days more." "If it is only the interest," said Sort, "I have a few hundred kroner which I've saved up for my old days." "Now it's too late; the farm is already taken over by another man.
"Thrifty, what?" The cart is not worth much it has stood too long uncovered in the open; but Axel bids a full five Kroner more at last, and gets the cart as well. After that Axel buys no more, but all are astonished to see that cautious man buying so much as he has. Then came the animals. They had been kept in their shed today, so as to be there in readiness.
"But if you will leave him with me, I'll pay you twenty kroner for him." Ashbjörn stared at the fiddler in amazement when he heard him name so large a sum. He thought that Clement believed the midget had some mysterious power and might be of service for him.
And he answers: Answers cautiously enough that as to the price, he can say nothing of that, but he knows what Aronsen says the place has cost him. "And how much is that?" asks Inger, having no strength to keep her peace and be silent. "'Tis sixteen hundred Kroner" says Andresen.
If the applicant is satisfactory, the lady of the house pays her a bonus of one krone or two kroner called "hand money" that is, she crosses her hand with silver as an evidence of good faith and the girl agrees to report for duty within one week after New Year's or Midsummer's day, as the case may be. That is to allow her present employer to fill her place.
"That's eighteen kroner a sack." "No, seventeen. And you earn as much as that on your first tourist." Yes, Petra had it all figured out; she was the born landlady, and had grown up in a lodginghouse. She could cook, too, for had she not put two snakes of Italian macaroni in the barley broth?
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