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And then a youngster would come out from among the little fir-trees, lustily cracking his whip; he was the general of the whole lot Pelle, the youngster who had no one set over him. And the figure that came stumbling across the arable yonder, in order to drive the cows home why, that was Lasse! Father Lasse! He did not know why, but it wrung a sob from him; it took him so unawares.
He drew closer and closer. "Hi," he said to one of the workers, who was taking a breath, "can a man get taken on here?" The man took a long look at him. "Get taken on here?" he cried, turning more to his comrades than to Lasse. "Ah, you'd like to, would you? Here you foreigners come running, from Funen and Middlefart, and want to take the bread out of the mouths of us natives.
"Then we must get some," said the mistress, and they had to set about threshing at once. And one day when Karna raised too many objections she received a ringing box on the ear. "It's a new nature she's got," said Lasse. But the old workpeople recognized several things from their young days. "It's her family's nature," they said. "She's a regular Koller."
"And that'll be a day's feasting, with plenty of food and drink, if I know anything of Brother Kalle!" said Lasse. When they had finished their work and had their supper, they stole out through the outside door into the field.
There was only one way out of the difficulty to borrow the money from Madam Olsen; and that Lasse would have to come to in the end, loth as he was to do it. But Pelle must not know anything about it. Lasse refrained as long as he possibly could, hoping that something or other would turn up to free him from the necessity of so disgraceful a proceeding as borrowing from his sweetheart.
Then we must begin to think about his clothes." "That's two troubles got rid of!" said Lasse when they went down to the stable again. "And did you notice how nicely I let her know that you were going to be confirmed? It was almost as if she'd found it out for herself.
He obtained an outfit for Karl from a charitable society, and placed him as apprentice with a shopkeeper for whom the boy had run errands. One Sunday afternoon he went over to the "Ark" with a big parcel under his arm. He was holding Young Lasse by the hand; every moment the child stooped down, picked up a little stone, dragged his father to the quay- wall, and threw the stone into the water.
Lasse knelt before the green chest; every article was carefully folded and remarked upon, before it was placed in the canvas bag that was to serve Pelle as a traveling-trunk. "Now remember not to wear your stockings too long before you mend them!" said Lasse, putting mending wool on one side. "He who mends his things in time, is spared half the work and all the disgrace."
"You needn't worry about them you just think about getting well again; to-day we've got the sunshine and it's fine weather at sea!" "Let a little sunshine in here to me, then," said Lasse peevishly. "There's a great wall in front of the window, father," said Pelle, bending down over him. "Well, well, it'll soon be over, the little time that's still left me!
Ellen was amused to see how his face was altered. "I can scarcely recognize you!" she said. He had thought she would have opposed its removal, and have put his moustache before the Cause; but she was pleasant about the whole matter. He could not at all understand this alteration in her. When he had finished he stood up and went over to Young Lasse, but the child cried out in terror.
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