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Updated: May 25, 2025
Here was a home; he could go inside and shut the door, and stay there; could stand outside on the door-slab, the owner of that house, if any should pass by. There were two rooms in the hut; for himself at the one end, and for his beasts at the other. Farthest in, against the wall of rock, was the hayloft. Everything was there. Two more Lapps come by, father and son.
And it was no light hay to move; she must have worked hard, and all the cows and goats to milk besides.... "Go in and get something to eat," he said to Sivert. "Aren't you coming, then?" "No." A little while after, Inger came out and stood humbly on the door-slab and said: "If you'd think of yourself a little and come in and have a bite to eat." Isak grumbled at that and said "H'm."
One day Isak heard a sudden shout; Inger stood on the door-slab with the child in her arms, pointing over to the bull and the pretty little cow Silverhorns they were making love. Isak threw down his pick and raced over to the pair, but it was too late, by the look of it. The mischief was done. "Oh, the little rascal, she's all too young half a year too soon, a child!"
The stone is but the half of a stone, the other half is somewhere close by, no doubt. Isak knows well enough that two halves of the same stone may lie in different places; the frost, no doubt, that in course of time had shifted them apart. But he is all wonder and delight at the find; 'tis a useful stone of the best, a door-slab.
A round sum of money would not have filled this fieldworker's mind with such content. "A fine door-slab," says he proudly. And Inger, simple creature: "Why! Now how on earth could you tell that beforehand?" "H'm," says Isak. "Think I'd go here digging about for nothing?"
Inger went out on the door-slab to see him off; she did not cry or complain, but only said: "They may be coming for me now any day." "You don't know when?" "No, I can't say. And I don't suppose it will be just yet, but anyhow.... If only you could get hold of Geissler, perhaps he might be able to say something." What could Geissler do to help them now? Nothing. But Isak went.
It was no longer a pleasure and a delight to sit outside on the door-slab and look out over his lands and be the owner of it all. There was the potato field flowering madly, and drying up; let the lichen stay where it was what did he care? That Isak!
Why, if she went on that gait the hut would soon be filled from floor to roof and no room for more! Isak was astonished in his turn at all this wealth of goods, but being a silent man and slow to speak, he said nothing, only shambled out to the door-slab and looked at the weather, and shambled in again.
Place all done up 'twould mean a lot of work at first, but ... What I was going to say, d'you know if your mother was going to church come Sunday?" "Ay, she said something like it." "Ho!... H'm. Keep your eyes open now and look out for a good big door-slab for the new house. You haven't seen a bit would do?" "No," said Sivert. And they fell to work again.
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