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This question so struck her to the heart that she could not reply. 'We have no cow, Matte answered; 'but we have good smoked herring, and can cook them in a couple of hours. 'All right, then, that will do, said the students, as they flung themselves down on the rock, while fifty silvery-white herring were turning on the spit in front of the fire.
Rock walls sheltered them on the north side, and the sun shone on them on the south. This does not seem much, but it sufficed Maie for a herb plot. All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter.
Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a buttermilk jar; what more did they require? All would have gone well had not Maie been possessed with a secret longing which never let her rest; and this was, how she could manage to become the owner of a cow. 'What would you do with a cow? asked Matte.
The fisherman and his wife stood aghast on the doorstep, holding on fast by the doorpost, while the foam splashed over their faces. 'Did I not tell thee that there is no luck in Sunday fishing? said Matte sulkily; and his wife was so frightened that she never even once thought of Ahti's cows. As there was nothing to be done, they went in.
Rock walls sheltered them on the north side, and the sun shone on them on the south. This does not seem much, but it sufficed Maie for a herb plot. All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter.
I had also taken on board some plants of the ettow and matte, with which the natives here make a beautiful red colour; and a root called peeah, of which they make an excellent pudding. I now made my last presents to several of my friends with whom I had been most intimate, particularly to Teppahoo. Several people expressed great desire to go with us to England.
Matte and Maie were industrious, hard-working folk, happy and contented in their poor hut, and they thought themselves rich when they were able to salt as many casks of fish as they required for winter and yet have some left over with which to buy tobacco for the old man, and a pound or two of coffee for his wife, with plenty of burned corn and chicory in it to give it a flavour.
'How delightful, thought she to herself, 'to possess a fairy cow! How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and yet have no trouble about the feeding, and to keep a shelf near the window for dishes of milk and junkets! But this will never be my luck. 'What are you thinking of? asked Matte.
'Art thou satisfied now? said Matte to his wife. 'I should be quite satisfied, said his wife, 'if only I had two servants to help, and if I had some finer clothes. Don't you know that I am addressed as Madam? 'Well, well, said her husband. So Maie got several servants and clothes fit for a great lady. 'Everything would now be perfect if only we had a little better dwelling for summer.
'It looks like a big seal, said Matte. 'As sure as I live, it's a cow! exclaimed Maie. And certainly it was a cow, a fine red cow, fat and flourishing, and looking as if it had been fed all its days on spinach. It wandered peacefully up and down the shore, and never so much as even looked at the poor little tufts of grass, as if it despised such fare. Matte could not believe his eyes.
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