The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands
ad two rooms opening into the court, and all the other houses, even that of the pop, who said Mass in the church on Sunday, had only one. And this grand house was not crowded like the other houses
the village did. He even approved of young people setting up housekeeping by themselves. Therefore, though some of the older bolshaks shook their heads an
ee, for they had two rooms. The cowherd woman and the two moujiks who helped the starosta on the land, slept, of course, in the stalls with the cattle under the shed that went around t
never went entirely out. The grandmother did not sleep on this stove, however. The starosta greatly honored his old mother, and to her he gave the second room in the house for her
red after a long day in the fields. But on rainy days, when the starosta would not permit his
as sitting by the stove, with her distaff and spindle and a basket of wool by her side. In ca
tory, little
the song she had been
out the Wolf that wa
med the little boy. "T
randmoth
LF AS
ld I be a wolf and go around devouring the other beasts? It would be much better for me
bristled up in terror, but Isegrim cried out, "Don't be frightened, Gr
n he saw Isegrim, but the Wolf cried out, "Don't be frightened, Longbea
ieted her, saying, "Don't be frightened, Skinny-bones! I don't
d presently he came to the pasture where he had met the old Mare. Now was the Mare terrified. She
xclaimed the Mare. "You
," snarled Isegrim, "I am
ere is no help for it, come again by a
tly he met the He-goat. "Ho, Longbe
plied the He-goat. "You are
e," retorted the Wolf, "I
"but since you are bound to eat me, just gr
et the Sow. "Listen to me, Gruntelind," said he
ed the Sow. "You are no Wo
here," said the Wolf,
; "since you insist, come an
nd away he went to lo
nes," said he; "you ar
left hind hoof, for my master had me shod the other day, and the smith marked my age upon the h
aised her hoof and dealt Isegrim so smart a blow on the head that he
here, Gruntelind," he said to he
no help for it, just lead me around by the e
rushed to the spot from far and near, and falling upon Cousin Isegrim they almost tore him in piec
ield, with your mouth wide open, and my brothers and I will jump down your thr
s mouth wide open. Then all the He-goats ran against him, butting at him, before and behind,
im, "Now, see here, Gockeling, I am
hers I have. Why should you bother to pluck me? It would save you a worl
tree. He hopped from branch to branch until he was in perfect
ce and happiness; neither should I have been one-it has served me right. My father was no Swine musician, but he lived well for all that; neither should I have been one-it has served me right. My father never measured a field with
middle of the field, w
blow on the head with his axe. Then Isegrim cried out with his last breath, "Well, I v
few minutes. "Did you know that Wolf
dmother; "it was my great-gre