‘You have had nothing to eat to-day, Father. Won’t you have a little? You must want some food.’
‘Thank you, my little Unnas. You are right; I do want some food. Did you see the fight?’
‘Yes, but I did not venture to go close up.’
‘No. Courageous you are not, Unnas, but you are a very faithful friend.’
‘Yes, I am to you.’
‘Not to others, aren’t you? Not even to my friend Jussi?’
‘No; he beats me.’
‘Well, but you don’t behave well to him, either. You enticed him once upon a time on to an island in the river, and left him there for a couple of days.’ [[38]]
‘Yes, because he struck me, but perhaps some day I shall take him in as I took in Stallo.’
‘What Stallo?’