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Updated: May 15, 2025
"They say that they can take blindness away over in Copenhagen," said Kalle to his brother. "It would cost a lot of money, wouldn't it?" asked Lasse. "It would cost a hundred krones at the very least," the grandmother remarked. Kalle looked thoughtful. "If we were to sell the whole blooming thing, it would be funny if there wasn't a hundred krones over.
Good night." He made his unsteady way to their extra bedroom, and he was still there with the door locked when Hazel returned from a card party at the Krones'. It was the first night they had spent apart since their marriage, and Hazel was inclined to be huffed when he looked in before breakfast, dressed, shaved, and smiling, as if he had never had even a bowing acquaintance with John Barleycorn.
Kalle brought in the old lady's arm-chair from her room, and made her sit down. "What's all that nonsense about?" he said reproachfully. "Why, you pay for yourself!" "Pay! Oh dear! They get twenty krones a year for keeping me," said the old woman to the company in general. The coffee came in, and Kalle poured brandy into the cups of all the elder people.
Things looked bad, but Lasse staked his all on one cast, and used the couple of krones he got for the hide of the cow to go to Bornholm. When he came back in the autumn, there were three mouths to fill; but then he had a hundred krones to meet the winter with. At that time Lasse had been equal to the situation, and he would still straighten his bowed shoulders whenever he thought of that exploit.
They sat down upon the edge of the stream with their feet in the water, and carefully uncovered their captives; they were dragon-flies. As the insects one by one crawled out at the narrow opening, the boys decapitated them and laid them in a row on the grass. They had caught nine, and nine times thirty-five well, it would be more than three krones. The stupendous amount made Pelle skeptical.
Things looked bad, but Lasse staked his all on one cast, and used the couple of krones he got for the hide of the cow to go to Bornholm. When he came back in the autumn, there were three mouths to fill; but then he had a hundred krones to meet the winter with. At that time Lasse had been equal to the situation, and he would still straighten his bowed shoulders whenever he thought of that exploit.
He had to bend his head and cross himself in awe at the amount that the boy's little head could contain. "I wonder what it costs to be a student?" said Lasse, when he once more felt earth beneath his feet. "It must be expensive a thousand krones, I suppose, at least," Pelle thought. Neither of them connected any definite idea with the number; it merely meant the insurmountably great.
"You're a nice one to make promises!" said Bengta, standing still, and they all set down their milk-pails and talked it over. "I wonder whether Bodil hasn't?" said Karna. "No," answered Maria, "for she sent the ten krones she had by her to her mother the other day." Mons dashed his cap to the floor and gave a leap. "I'll go up to the Old Gentleman himself," he said.
And laddie would never feel cold there, for they wore wool next their skin, and not this poor linen that the wind blew right through; and a laborer who kept himself could easily make his two krones a day. That was something different from their master's miserable eighty ores and finding themselves in everything.
He had to bend his head and cross himself in awe at the amount that the boy's little head could contain. "I wonder what it costs to be a student?" said Lasse, when he once more felt earth beneath his feet. "It must be expensive a thousand krones, I suppose, at least," Pelle thought. Neither of them connected any definite idea with the number; it merely meant the insurmountably great.
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