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Updated: May 18, 2025
"And then we go on our way. But when we've got a few paces off, I turn round suddenly and say, 'Here, you, Heikki, give us a bit of a sermon for the young lady. 'Tis just the place for church. "'H'm, says Heikki. 'I doubt it wouldn't do. "''Twill please her, for sure I'll answer for that, say I. 'And you do it better than anything else. Antti can help with the service.
'Twould be a wrong to myself and you, and to all I've hoped and believed, if I didn't speak yet it's hard to begin. Come closer, you too, Heikki I can't speak so loud...." The elder brother, who had just come in from the fields with his muddy boots on, had sat down close to the door. He moved his chair now nearer the bed.
"'Yes, yes! cry the others. 'If she's wanting to see things out here. Sermon, Heikki! "Heikki climbs up on a big rock, and Antti on a tree stump, and Heikki starts off, grumbling out just like the priest at Kakela. "'Is any soul from Keituri here in church to-day? "'Ay, lord and noble master, here be I, says Antti in a deep base that goes rumbling through the woods.
Says she's never heard so fine a sermon all her life. "''Tis well said, say the men. 'Heikki, he's a wonder to preach, that he is. "And so they wave their caps to us as we go off." "Oh!" said the girl delightedly. "And is it really like that, I wonder?" "Yes, of course. Only you mustn't say anything. We must go home now then we can talk all about it after.
"And so they go through the service, and after, Heikki begins to preach. It's the wildest nonsense, Swedish and Finnish and gipsy-talk and all sorts of odd lingo muddled up together, and he pours out the words like a river in flood. The men are in fits of laughter all the time, and you you're near to bursting. "'The young lady bids me thank you very much, say I, when it's over. 'Both of you.
"... And you'll take over the place now, of course," said Olof to his elder brother, "and work the farm as it's always been done since it's been in the family. 'Twon't be long, I doubt, before you bring home a wife to be mistress here.... Anyhow, I take it you'll go on as before?" "What's in your mind now?" asked Heikki, with a little sharp cough.
Never fear he's forgotten his anger long ago. And mother and he are both waiting for you to come home for brother Heikki is too young to take over the place.... "'Do you really think so? "'Think? I know! And there's any amount of work all waiting for you. New ground to be sown, and a new barn to build, and we ought to have three times the stock we have now.
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