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Updated: June 16, 2025
"There are machines which make boots, and they make them cheaper than you, too," said the skipper brusquely. "I should like to see them! Can you show me a boot that hasn't been made by human hands?" Jeppe laughed contemptuously. "No; there's something behind all this, by God! Some one is trying to play us a trick!" The skipper went his way, offended.
JEPPE thought this was a matter for the High Court, and counselled the Raad to adopt that course, giving the chief a public trial. The PRESIDENT said the Executive acted strictly in accordance with the law; it was not necessary for the Government to send the case to the High Court, as it had the power to decide native cases.
He had not yet succeeded in making a beginning, and already he had been caught behaving like a blockhead. "Well, well, well," said Klaus, in a good-humored tone, "you are no bigger fool than all the rest. But if you'll take my advice, you'll go to shoemaker Jeppe Kofod as apprentice; I am going straight to his place to fetch manure, and I know he's looking for an apprentice.
At first he did remind them they had told him to do so but then Jeppe received a hint that his youngest apprentice must stop his attempts at swindling. Pelle could not understand it, but he conceived an increasing dislike of these people, who could resort to such a shameless trick in order to save a penny piece, which they would never have missed.
The communication referred to is as follows: 'The Government of the South African Republic have accepted the offer of the High Commissioner to come to Pretoria. J. F. DE BEER, Judicial Commissioner. CARL JEPPE, Member of the First Volksraad, Johannesburg. A. H. BLECKSLEY, Commandant Volunteers.
"That's the good God's way of marking those who have signed themselves to the Evil One." "God knows what the pastrycook wants with him," said Jeppe. "People of that sort can't do anything they only ask. I've heard the whole lot of them are free-thinkers." "What a lark!" The young master shook himself contentedly. "He won't grow old here in the town!" "Old?" The baker drew up his heavy body.
Where are you going without permission?" asked Jeppe, if one of them got up to go into the court; he was always forgetting that times had altered. They did not answer, and then he would fly into a passion. "I'll have you show me respect!" he would cry, stamping on the floor until the dust eddied round him. Master Andres would slowly raise his head.
He did not come to the workshop any longer out of fear of Jeppe, who was extremely wroth with him for dishonoring his trade. It was cozy in the workshop when the fire crackled in the stove and the darkness looked in at the black, uncovered window-panes.
The neighbors would come into the twilight of the workshop; if Master Andres was not there, they would slip out again, or they would sit idly there until Jeppe said it was bed-time. Pelle had begun to occupy himself with carving once more; he got as close to the lamp as possible, listening to the conversation while he worked upon a button which was to be carved like a twenty-five-ore piece.
She has a good guard at my house. There is Groat and his four sons on one side, and Jeppe Madson and his big brother Har on the other side; and there is David Borson, who is worth a whole ship's crew, to back them in anything for Vala's safety. Stay with me to-day, Nanna, and we will talk this matter out." But Nanna shook her head in reply.
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