The things we do!

No harm in that; no harm in doing so now. And so I do.
A quiet sense of mystery steals through me; I hold my breath and gaze.
There it comes, the sky trailing behind it like the wake of a ship.
_Gakgak_, high overhead. And the splendid ploughshare glides along
beneath the stars....
We found a barn at last, at a farmstead where all was still, and there we
slept some hours. They found us next morning sound asleep.
Falkenberg went up to the farmer at once and offered to pay for our
lodging. We had come in late the night before, he explained, and didn't
like to wake folk out of their beds, but we were no runaways for all that.
The man would not take our money; instead he gave us coffee in the
kitchen. But he had no work for us; the harvest was in, and he and his lad
had nothing to do themselves now but mend their fences here and there.


XIII

We tramped three days and found no work, but had to pay for our food and
drink, getting poorer every day.
"How much have you got left, and how much have I got left? We'll never get
any great way at this rate," said Falkenberg.


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