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Updated: May 8, 2025
But in the house Joggeli was saying that he liked the new man, for he knew his business; but he hoped he wouldn't boss too much he didn't like that. You couldn't do things in all places just alike, and by and by he wouldn't have any orders to give himself.
It was true that she had wanted to visit her cousin about this affair, and for that reason she had taken them both along. But what she had in mind nobody knew, not even Joggeli, much less Uli.
Uli forces Joggeli to be the first farmer with his haying, but cannot get him to supply decent tools. The other servants are lazy and slack the milker and carter especially so. Although Uli urges and drives him in vain, Joggeli takes malicious enjoyment in his distress.
And she would be sorry to send him off packing without notice, before they had more grounds of complaint; for, if she did, Joggeli would be the first to accuse her of dismissing through groundless anxiety the best servant they had ever had. But that was the way he always did when she wanted him to speak he would keep still, and when she wanted him to keep still he would always meddle.
At last Uli loses all patience and demands the instant dismissal of the carter and the milker, his own departure being the alternative. Joggeli is with difficulty persuaded to take this step; but once taken, the good results are immediate and permanent. The carter and the milker, at first expecting to be taken back in a day or two, finally beg for their old places; but Uli is firm.
I'm in earnest; I've said to Joggeli many a time that there never were two people better fitted for each other than you two; it was as if you'd grown up for each other." "But Auntie," cried Freneli, "for goodness gracious sake, do stop, or I'll run away. I won't be auctioned off like a cow. Wait till Christmas; then I'll get out of your sight, or even before, if I'm so displeasing to you.
"Yes," said Joggeli, "sometimes it goes that way; but let's let the wood go: the threshing's more pressing now." "As you will," said Uli, and went somewhat heavy-hearted to bed. "Well, you are the queerest man," said the old woman to her husband. "I liked what Uli said awfully well.
They hadn't taken her with them to Elsie's wedding, and it was only fair to give the girl a pleasure once in a while. To the latter plan Joggeli had many objections; but this time he gave in for his old wife's sake and agreed to get along for a couple of days.
You've got to show 'em right from the start how you want to have things." grumbled Joggeli. "Yes, you're the right one to show 'em; you spoil the good ones, and the bad ones you're afraid of and let 'em do as they please that's your way," said his wife. "It's always been that way, and it isn't going to be any different now."
Joggeli did not want the conversation to continue and took Johannes around through stables and granary, as long as it was light. He asked for advice and got it, but Johannes would praise nothing. Of the calves he said that they ought to be looked to, for they had lice; and of the sheep that they were too cramped for room, that they would squeeze each other and the lambs would be ruined.
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