two-and-thirty-thousand

Updated: June 5, 2025

How many settlers are there in the Almenning now?" "Ten." "Ten new holdings. I'll agree. I'm satisfied. But 'tis two-and-thirty-thousand men of your father's stamp the country wants. Ay, that's what I say, and I mean it; I've reckoned it out." "Sivert, are you coming on?" The caravan is waiting. Geissler hears, and calls back sharply: "No."

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil