"Change with him—would you?"
"And perhaps how Barbro she'd like it better that way."
"Ay, maybe," said Isak.
They walk on for a good way in silence. Then says Axel:
"They've been after me to take over that telegraph business."
"The telegraph? H'm. Ay, I heard that Brede he's given it up."
"H'm," says Axel, smiling. "'Tis not so much that way of it, but Brede that's been turned off."
"Ay, so," says Isak, and trying to find some excuse for Brede. "It takes a deal of time to look after, no doubt."
"They gave him notice to the new year, if he didn't do better."
"H'm."