The things we do!

You said you had money; let me see."
I showed him the notes I had.
"Good. I'm an official, you see, and have to know my folk. Though I don't
suppose you've anything on your conscience, seeing you come to the
Lensmand, haha! Well, as I said, you can give yourself a rest today, and
start cutting wood tomorrow."
I set to work getting ready for the next day, looked to my clothes, filed
the saw, and ground my ax. I had no gloves, but it was hardly weather for
gloves as yet, and there was nothing else I was short of.
The Lensmand came out to me several times, and talked in a casual way; it
amused him, perhaps, to talk to a strange wanderer. "Here, Margrethe!" he
called to his wife, as she went across the courtyard; "here's the new man;
I'm going to send him out cutting wood."


XXX

We had no special orders, but set to work as we thought best, felling
dry-topped trees, and in the evening the Lensmand said it was right
enough. But he would show us himself the next day.


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