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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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SKETCHES. 381

If the handsome hand is busy,
Sure the ugly one ’s away.’

“She was so glad, oh, so glad, that she had almost let the
potatoes drop on the floor, for she was so anxious to run
aud kiss the blessed little white hand; but it was gone,
and at that instant her husband came home from his work,
carrying a large bundle of wood, and the wife told him with
joyful tears what she had seen. And he was also heartily
glad, and they sat down to eat. And for many, many a day,
their meal had not tasted so well. They were happier than
they had been for a long time, and they thanked God.
And now they began another life. Every morning they
got up at daybreak and worked all day long, that often,
when night came, they were so tired, oh, so tired; but then
they had encouragement, for every day they saw the white
hand come in, bringing back some of the things which the
ugly hand had dragged away; yes, and one day it came
and put the coffee-kettle on the fire, and hung up Sven’s
holiday coat on the peg; but the funniest thing was when
they heard one evening a lowing outside the window. ‘My
cow, my cow, my blessed “ May-rose!”’ cried Gertrud, and
ran out, and behold, it was ‘May-rose’ that had come
back, led by the horns by the white hand, and she looked
at Gertrud with her large, friendly eyes, and lowed so mer-
rily. Gertrud could not sleep that night, for she longed so
to get up in the morning to give her dear ‘ May-rose’ her
fodder, and caress and milk her.

“ And now Gertrud was much more industrious than any
wife in the whole neighborhood, and she had woven such
beautiful stuffs out of her yarn, and she sold them to the
people all round. And the husband wrought weaving-
looms during the winter for those who wanted to weave,
and Gertrud taught them how to doit. When now Sven
and Gertrud had become rich, they took his old mother
into their house, and made her old age happy, for which
God blessed them. And He did so indeed, for Ie gave

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