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Updated: May 15, 2025
Then Lasse sold their bit of furniture, and made nearly a hundred krones on it; it went in paying the expenses of the long illness, and the house and land belonged to the landlord. A green chest, that had been part of Bengta's wedding outfit, was the only thing he kept.
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.
"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?
"Do you think I play for small sums? What do I care about the boy! He may take himself off; I'm not his father." Pelle looked at him a moment without comprehending; then he took a paper containing a few silver coins out of his waistcoat pocket, and handed the boy two krones. The boy stood motionless with amazement for a moment, but then, seizing the money, he darted away as quickly as he could go.
A hundred krones a year in wages seemed a tremendous amount when one thought of it all in one; but you only got them gradually, a few ores at a time, without your being able to put your finger anywhere and say: You got a good round sum there! "Yes, yes, it'll be all right!" said Lasse aloud, when he had got himself entangled in absurd speculations; and Pelle had to be satisfied with this.
He bent his fingers backward and moved his ears; he could move them forward in a listening position like a horse. All this irritated Pelle intensely. Suddenly he stopped. "Won't you give me the half-krone, then? You shall have ten krones when I grow up." Rud collected money he was avaricious already and had a whole boxful of coins that he had stolen from his mother. Pelle considered a little.
"Yes, and the day after to-morrow we shall say to-day," said Lasse, with a juvenile fling. They opened their eyes upon an incomprehensibly brilliant world, and did not at first remember that this was the day. Lasse had anticipated his wages to the amount of five krones, and had got an old cottager to do his work for half a krone and his meals.
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