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Updated: June 15, 2025
"What a surprise it'll be to-morrow morning when they come here and find the nest empty!" said Pelle gaily. Lasse chuckled. Their plan was to take shelter with Kalle for a day or two, while they took a survey of what the world offered. When everything was done in the evening, they took the green chest between them, and stole out through the outside door into the field.
"Yes, you ought to be resting and sleeping," said Lasse. "Hadn't we better say good-bye to you?" "No, I really must talk, for it'll be the last time I see you and I shall have plenty of time to rest. My eyes are so light thank God, and I don't feel the least bit sleepy." "Grandmother hasn't slept for a whole week, I think," said Kalle doubtfully.
Mind what you say," he whispered into the cowshed, "for she is really here! And be quick!" They went into the room, and Kalle went groping about to light a candle. Twice he took up the matches and dropped them again to light it at the fire, but the peat was burning badly. "Oh, bother!" he said, resolutely striking a match at last. "We don't have visitors every day."
At last he discovered that there were strangers present, and drew on his clothes, which had been doing duty as his pillow. Pelle and he became good friends at once, and began to play; and then Kalle hit upon the idea of letting the other children share in the merry-making, and he and the two boys went round and tickled them awake, all the six.
"Thank you, Anna's is fat and well, but our own seems to have come to a standstill. After all, it's the young pigs you ought to breed with. By the bye" Kalle took out his purse "while we're at it, don't let me forget the ten krones I got from you for the christenings." Lasse pushed it away. "Never mind that," he said. "You may have a lot to go through yet. How many mouths are there now?
Lasse laughed at the trick, but would not hear of taking the money; and for a time it passed backward and forward between them. "Well, well!" said Kalle at last, keeping the note; "thank you very much, then! And good-bye, brother! I must be going." Lasse went out with him, and sent many greetings. "We shall come and look you up very soon," he called out after his brother.
"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.
Lasse laughed at the trick, but would not hear of taking the money; and for a time it passed backward and forward between them. "Well, well!" said Kalle at last, keeping the note; "thank you very much, then! And good-bye, brother! I must be going." Lasse went out with him, and sent many greetings. "We shall come and look you up very soon," he called out after his brother.
And Maria stared at him with eyes that were just as big, and said: "Yah! you want to fight, do you?" It quite warmed Lasse's heart to see their happiness. "How's the farmer at Stone Farm? I suppose he's got over the worst now, hasn't he?" said Kalle. "Well, I think he's as much a man as he'll ever be. A thing like that leaves its mark upon any one," answered Lasse.
"Your wife's Danish," said Lasse, admiringly. "And you've got a cow too?" "Yes, it's a biggish place here," said Kalle, drawing himself up. "There's a cat belonging to the establishment too, and as many rats as it cares to eat." His wife now appeared, breathless, and looking in astonishment at the visitors. "Yes, the midwife's gone again," said Kalle.
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