The student immediately sprang up. The way out! He grabbed his cap. "Do you keep many, Captain?" he asked, extremely interested.
"Come!—oh, it is no matter about going through the kitchen—come out a little while on the porch steps. Do you see that light spot in the woods up there? That is where we took the timber for the cow-house and the pigsty, two years ago."
He went out into the farmyard bare-headed.
"Marit, Marit, here is some one who wants to see your pigs. Now you shall be reviewed. There are a sow and seven—you see. Ugh, ugh, yes. Hear your little ones, Marit!—But it was the brick wall, you see. Right here was a swamp hole; it oozed through from the brook above. And now—see the drain there?—as dry as tinder."
Now or never the petition must be presented.
"And now they live like lords all together there," continued the captain.
"All seven of the dollars—what am I saying, all five of the pigs."
"What?"
"Here is your hat, father!"—Jörgen came from the house—"and there are some of the people down from Fosse standing there and waiting."