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Updated: May 26, 2025
Ola Serka went down to Lake Luossajaure and had walked a short distance along the strand, when he happened upon a man who sat on a rock fishing. The fisherman was gray-haired and bent. His eyes blinked wearily and there was something slack and helpless about him.
"An' we're all goin' to the circus to-night!" Danny informed them. "All of us!" Celia Jane got breath enough to utter. "Me, too?" Nora asked. "Yes, all of you!" laughed Jerry. "And Kathleen, too." "I wanta see serka," cried the baby. "And so you shall," said Whiteface, so close that Kathleen drew whimpering away from his white, chalky features. "It's all true, Mrs. Mullarkey."
"She will find kind parents and kind brothers and sisters in the tent," insisted Ola Serka. "It's worse to be alone than to freeze." The fisherman became more and more zealous to prevent the adoption. It seemed as if he could not bear the thought of a child of Swedish parents being taken in by Laplanders. "You said just now that she had a father in the mine." "He's dead," said the Lapp abruptly.
"The girl stayed with the boy for the rest of her life, and never again did she long for the valleys. And you, Osa, if you were to stay with us only a month, you could never again part from us." With these words, Aslak, the Lapp boy, finished his story. Just then his father, Ola Serka, took the pipe from his mouth and rose.
I think you'll say that she will be a good daughter to me." The Swede rushed on so rapidly that the Laplander could hardly keep pace with him. After a moment Ola said to his companion: "Now I recall that her name is Osa this girl I'm adopting." The other man only kept hurrying along and old Ola Serka was so well pleased that he wanted to laugh aloud.
Ola Serka himself, who was the most distinguished man among the Lapps, had said that he would find Osa's father, but he appeared to be in no haste and sat huddled outside the tent, thinking of Jon Esserson and wondering how best to tell him of his daughter's arrival. It would require diplomacy in order that Jon Esserson might not become alarmed and flee.
He was an odd sort of man who was afraid of children. He used to say that the sight of them made him so melancholy that he could not endure it. While Ola Serka deliberated, Osa, the goose girl, and Aslak, the young Lapp boy who had stared so hard at her the night before, sat on the ground in front of the tent and chatted. Aslak had been to school and could speak Swedish.
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