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Finally, he saw on a little hillock something that resembled a small, gray moss tuft, and he knew that there was Akka from Kebnekaise. She stood, wide awake, looking about as if she were keeping watch over the whole glen. "Good morning, Mother Akka!" said the boy. "Please don't waken the other geese yet awhile, for I wish to speak with you in private."
He turned his back to the eagle and would not speak to him. Now that the bird had set the boy down in a place from which he could not run away, he told him confidentially that he had been brought up by Akka from Kebnekaise, and that he had quarrelled with his foster-mother. "Now, Thumbietot, perhaps you understand why I wish to take you back to the wild geese," he said.
"Maybe you can tell me where Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock hold forth nowadays?" "It's quite possible that I know where they are," Agar hinted, "but I'm not likely to tell you!" "Please yourself!" retorted Smirre. "Nevertheless, you can take a message that I have for them. You probably know the present condition of Lake Mälar?
The boy rose quickly and walked toward him. "Are you not the one who is called Bataki, the raven? and are you not a friend of Akka from Kebnekaise?" asked the boy. The bird regarded him intently; then nodded three times. "Surely, you're not the little chap who flies around with the wild geese, and whom they call Thumbietot?" "Oh, you're not so far out of the way," said the boy.
Some thirty geese, in regular order, flew rapidly southward. There was a rustling of feathers and the many wings beat the air so noisily that one could scarcely hear one's own voice. Akka from Kebnekaise flew in the lead; after her came Yksi and Kaksi, Kolme and Neljä, Viisi and Kuusi, Morten Goosey-Gander and Dunfin.
"I told him that I had been sent by Akka from Kebnekaise to ask if he couldn't give Nils Holgersson easier terms. "'I only wish I could! he answered, 'for I have heard that he has conducted himself well on the trip; but it is not in my power to do so. "Then I was wrathy and said that I would bore out his eyes unless he gave in.
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