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The more distant corner of the little living-room, that which embraced the hearth and the dower-chest, was already wrapped in gloom. Elsa bent over the worm-eaten piece of furniture: her hands plunged in the midst of maize-husks and dirty linen of cabbage-stalks and sunflower-seeds, till presently they encountered something soft and woolly. "Here is the bunda, mother," she said.
And they found on top of the snow a pile of dusty sweepings from the hay-mow, with grass-seeds in it and some cracked corn and crumbs. And there were squash-seeds, and sunflower-seeds, and seedy apple-cores that had been broken up in the grinder used to crunch bones for the chickens; and there were prune-pits that had been cracked with a hammer.
A bit later, she sat thinking of other remedies limeflowers, sunflower-seeds, pearl barley, flowers of sulphur when suddenly she saw Mite Kornelje go by. She ran out and called: "Mite!" "What is it, Zalia?" "Mite, Zeen is ill." "What, ill? All at once?" "Yes, all of a sudden, cutting the corn in the field." "Is he bad?"
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