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"Oh, you wives always take one another's part," said Kalle, "but other people have eyes too. What do you say, grandmother? You know that better than any one else." "Well, I know something about it at any rate," said the old woman. "I remember the time when Kongstrup came to the island as well as if it had been yesterday.
"What about you, Lasse?" said the old woman suddenly, "I hear you're looking about for a wife!" "Am I?" exclaimed Lasse, in alarm. Pelle saw Kalle wink at Maria, so they knew about it too. "Aren't you soon coming to show us your sweetheart?" asked Kalle. "I hear it's a good match." "I don't in the least know what you're talking about," said Lasse, quite confused.
"When we take Anna's too, it makes fourteen." "Oh, yes, count the others too, and you'll get off all the easier!" said Kalle teasingly. Lasse was looking at Anna's child, which lay side by side with Kalle's thirteenth. "She looks healthier than her aunt," he said. "You'd scarcely think they were the same age. She's just as red as the other's pale."
Pelle, who had sat and listened to the conversation, pressed close up to his father in fear; but Lasse himself did not look particularly valiant. "It's not always nice to have anything to do with the dead," he said. "Oh, nonsense! If you've done no harm to any one, and given everybody their due, what can they do to you?" said Kalle.
"No, surely not!" exclaimed Kalle, in changed tones. "But what for? Have you been stealing? Or been impudent?" "No, but the master accused me of being too thick with his son." In a flash the mother's eyes darted from the girl's face to her figure, and she too burst into tears. Kalle could see nothing, but he caught his wife's action and understood. "Oh!" he said quietly. "Is that it?"
And Pelle told them stories of his childhood about the bull and Father Lasse, the farmer of Stone Farm and Uncle Kalle with his thirteen children and his happy disposition.
"Oh, I dare say!" said the old woman, smiling indulgently. "I suppose I look like a young bride after her first baby, eh? But thank you for coming; it's as if you belonged to me. Well, now I've been sent for, and I shall depart in peace. I've had a good time in this world, and haven't anything to complain of. I had a good husband and a good daughter, not forgetting Kalle there.
Promise me now, Maria, that you won't go and ruin yourselves to make a fuss over a poor old soul like me! But you must ask the nearest neighbors in in the afternoon, with Lasse and Pelle, of course. And if you ask Hans Henrik, perhaps he'd bring his concertina with him, and you could have a dance in the barn." Kalle scratched the back of his head.
"Yes, and I'm departing in peace and can lie quiet in my grave. I've not been treated unfairly in any way, and I've got nothing to haunt any one for. If only Kalle takes care to have me carried out feet first, I don't expect I shall trouble you." "Just you come and visit us now and then if you like! We shan't be afraid to welcome you, for we've been so happy together here," said Kalle.
"Yes, and we were to remember father to you, and mother, and all the rest." But Pelle had no thoughts to spare for Uncle Kalle. "Is it up by Stone Farm?" he asked. "No farther to the east, by the Witch's Cell," said Due. "It is a big piece of land, but it's not much more than stone. So long as he doesn't ruin himself over it two have gone smash there before him.
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