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CHAPTER II
AN INTERRUPTED CELEBRATION
My, how well I remember the day that we
almost killed the dean’s wife! That sounds
queer; but it really was a live dean’s wife that
we really came within a hair’s breadth of
killing. And that, while we were just playing and
celebrating the Seventeenth of May—the day
when Norway adopted her own constitution,
you know.
Now you shall hear how it happened.
Right behind our old house we have a whole
big breezy hiil. If any of you live down on the
coast, you will know how beautiful it is and
what fun one can have up on such a hill. If
you have only seen it as you went by on the
steamer, you would never imagine how lovely it
is up on bare gray hiils that look out towards
the sea. Little soil, but lots of sunshine; wher-
ever there is a tiny crevice, fine long blades of
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