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Updated: June 15, 2025
Oh, yes!" he said suddenly at the outside door, and laughed delightedly; "it'll be something grand brother-in-law to the farmer in a way! Oh, fie, Kalle Karlsson! You and I'll be giving ourselves airs now!" He went a little way along the path with them, talking all the time. Lasse was quite melancholy over it.
"And you must really excuse it, but the children must be somewhere." Kalle squeezed himself in and sat down upon the edge of the turn-up bedstead. "Yes, we've managed to scrape together a few," he repeated. "You must provide for your old age while you have the strength. We've made up the dozen, and started on the next. It wasn't exactly our intention, but mother's gone and taken us in."
One day Kalle came to borrow ten krones and to invite Lasse and Pelle to the christening-party on the following Sunday. Lasse, with some difficulty, obtained the money from the bailiff up in the office, but to the invitation they had to say "No, thank you," hard though it was; it was quite out of the question for them to get off again. Another day the head man had disappeared.
"It sounds exactly as if she might be a princess." "Yes, and the one before's called Ellen from eleven, of course. That's her in the kneading-trough," said Kalle. "The one before that again is Tentius, and then Nina, and Otto. The ones before that weren't named in that way, for we hadn't thought then that there'd be so many.
"Yes, there is a difference," Kalle admitted, looking affectionately at the children. "It must be that Anna's has come from young people, while our blood's beginning to get old. And then the ones that come the wrong side of the blanket always thrive best like our Albert, for instance. He carries himself quite differently from the others.
"Oh, rubbish! We're still young," said Kalle. "We could very well begin something new, Maria and me." "Have none of you heard how Jacob Kristian's widow is?" asked the old lady by way of changing the subject. "I've got it into my head that she'll go first, and then me. I heard the crow calling over there last night." "That's our nearest neighbor on the heath," explained Kalle. "Is she failing now?
That is remarkable!" He could not get over his astonishment. "But now comes something that's still more remarkable," said Kalle, looking over the top of the slate at his brother with the gaze of a thinker surveying the universe. "Otto, which can be read from both ends, means, of course, eight; but if I draw the figure 8, it can be turned upside down, and still be the same. Look here!"
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.
"Beile is a kalle; she will marry to-morrow." "Has anybody fallen in love with her?" asked the mother. "No; but she will marry all the same." "Well, speak out, man! You kill one with suspense." "Do you know Reb Bensef, our parnas?" "Yes; but what has he to do with our Beile?"
Now that they knew the way, it seemed no distance at all; and before they knew where they were, the fields came to an end and the rock began. There was a light in the cottage. Kalle was sitting up waiting for them. "Grandmother hasn't long to live," he said, more seriously than Lasse ever remembered to have heard him speak before.
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