CHAPTER IV
AT GRANDMOTHER'S
"Pera, you do remember me, don't you? Oh, you nice old dog!" Anders threw his arms around the neck of a small shaggy yellow dog that was wriggling almost out of his skin with joy. You could not have told which was the happier, the dog or the boy.
"Just think! I haven't seen you for six months, Pera!" The two playmates romped across grandmother's lawn to the porch, where Erik was sitting on the steps with a tennis racket, waiting for his father.
"Sigrid has been hunting everywhere for you, Anders," said Erik.
"Here you are," exclaimed Sigrid a minute later, as she spied Anders. "Larsson says there is a baby calf over in the barn, and he will show it to us if we will go now."
Anders jumped up quickly, and followed by the dog, the children ran toward the group of barns and stables, at some distance from the house.
"Look at all those wild strawberries in this field," said Anders.