The things we do!

"
I said:
"It will mean so much less in _Aabot_ when you move."
The priest looked at me in surprise.
"_Aabot_? But I'm not thinking of leaving the place," he said.
"Why, then, you'll have the full use of it. And may your reverence live to
enjoy it for many a year," said I.
At this the priest stared at me, and asked:
"What is your name?"
"Knut Pedersen."
"Where are you from?"
"From Nordland."
But I understood why he had asked, and resolved not to talk in that
bookish way any more.
Anyhow, the well and the pipe-line were decided on, and we set to work....
The days that followed were pleasant enough. I was not a little anxious at
first as to whether we should find water on the site, and I slept badly
for some nights. But once that fear was past, all that remained was simple
and straightforward work. There was water enough; after a couple of days
we had to bale it out with buckets every morning. It was clay lower down,
and our clothes were soon in a sorry state from the work.


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