A Happy Boy

the cliff. The mother came and sat down beside him; he asked her to tell him stories a

lked to the clouds, and the clouds to the trees, the trees to the grass, the grass to the flies, the flies to the beasts, and the beasts to the children, but the children to grown people; and thus it continued until it had gone round i

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n to move about together, two and two; a stood resting beneath a tree called b, c came and joined it; but when three or four were grouped together they seemed to get angry with one another, and nothing would then go right. The farther he advanced the more com

mother came in

again, and you are goin

n to the gard, but not when there was school there, and he walked faster than his mother up the hill-side, so eager was he. When they came to the h

and he was delighted, for thus it was that

ut an arithmetic table; the school-master, an old, gray-haired man, sat on a stool by the hearth, filling his pipe. They all looked up when Oyvind and his mother came in

little boy who wants to lea

ed the school-master, fumbling down

other, "he knows his le

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school-master took him up on

stroking the child's hair. Oyvind l

me!" The old man knit

d Oyvind, with a me

aughed; the children knew now that they had permi

nd was initiat

his part looked about for a long time; while the other children whispered and po

e school-master, who was a

earthstone close beside him, sitting on a little red-painted box, Marit with the

r elbow; forthwith he, too, covered his face with both hands and looked at her from under his elbow. Thus they sat cutting up capers until she laughed, and then he laughed a

tches, chatter-boxes!-hush, a

l, until the pepper grinders again began to go; they read aloud, each from his book; the most delicate trebles piped up, the rougher voices drumming lou

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a little boy was afterwards appointed to teach them to read,

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le folks jumped down from the benches, r

r places, after which the school-master stood in front of them and made a short prayer. Then they sang; the school-master started the tune, in a deep bass; all the

e first day