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We get five krones a month for having the child, and that's a good help toward expenses." Maria had placed a dram, bread and a saucer of dripping on the table, and invited them to take their places at it. "You're holding out a long time at Stone Farm," said Kalle, when they were seated. "Are you going to stay there all your life?" he asked, with a mischievous wink.
Could it be true that he had spent five hundred krones in drinking and amusement in one evening? "The war is raging, the red blood streams, Among the mountains ring shouts and screams! The Turk advances with cruel rage, And sparing neither youth nor age. They go " "Ho!" Pelle sprang to his feet and gazed up over the clover field.
Twenty-five krones, he said, and it didn't sound anything more than when any of us ask for a piece of bread-and-dripping. 'Will the doctor be so kind as to wait a few days so that I can get the cow property sold? I asked. 'What! he says, and glares at me over his spectacles. 'You don't mean to sell the cow so as to pay me?
We get five krones a month for having the child, and that's a good help toward expenses." Maria had placed a dram, bread and a saucer of dripping on the table, and invited them to take their places at it. "You're holding out a long time at Stone Farm," said Kalle, when they were seated. "Are you going to stay there all your life?" he asked, with a mischievous wink.
"Altogether I've got fifty krones, and we both have decent clothes to put on; but beyond that I've only got a pair of good hands." "And I'm sure that's worth a good deal! And I should fancy you're not afraid of fetching a pail of water or that sort of thing, are you?" "No, I'm not. And I'm not afraid of a cup of coffee in bed on a Sunday morning, either." She laughed.
"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?
"If I ask the bailiff for an advance now when we're going to town, he'll say 'no' straight out. I wonder whether the girls haven't wages lying by." They were just coming up from the cow-stable with their milk-pails. "I say, girls," Erik called out to them. "Can't one of you lend us ten krones? She shall have twins for it next Easter; the sow farrows then anyhow."
On the day after Christmas Day there was a kind of subscription merrymaking at an enterprising crofter's down in the village; it was to cost two and a half krones a couple for music, sandwiches, and spirits in the middle of the night, and coffee toward morning. Gustav and Bodil were going.
III, an excellent account though somewhat antiquated; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs, Vol. II , ch. xix-xxi; G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Vol. VIII , ch. ii- iv; E. J. Lowell, The Eve of the French Revolution , an able survey; Sophia H. MacLehose, The Last Days of the French Monarchy , a popular narrative. VIII, Part II, Regne de Louis XV, 1715-1774 , and Vol.
He had not entirely given up thoughts of Karna yet, but he had promised Thatcher Holm's wife ten krones down if she could find some one that would do for him. He had really put the whole matter out of his head as an impossibility, and had passed into the land of old age; but what was the use of shutting yourself in, when you were all the time looking for doors through which to slip out again?
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