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And just then her eye lit tin the spectacle-case, behind a leg of the table. The old man rummaged and searched among the cog-wheels and springs in his bundle. "I don't see but I'll have to get down on the floor myself, and hunt," he said presently. "Get up, crofter-brat!" Quick as a flash the little girl's hand shot out and closed over the spectacle-case, which she hid under her apron.
And any one who has seen Agrippa Prästberg must know she would not have dared do anything but obey him. She got down on all fours and handed him a tiny saw and a mallet. "Anything more!" he bellowed. "Be glad you're allowed to serve His Majesty's and the Kingdom's drummer-boy, you confounded crofter-brat!" "No, not that I see," replied the little girl meekly.
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