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poor villagers who lived in the districts round
Gurlita Cliff. The famine was very severe among them;
their supply of potatoes was used up, and they could
not sow the rye in the burned clearings, for they had
no seed.
Then Captain Lennert took a small boat and
rowed obliquely over the lake to Fors and asked
Sintram to give them some rye and potatoes.
Sintram received him in a friendly manner; he showed
him over the big, well-provisioned granaries and
the full cellars, where the potatoes from last year’s
harvest still lay, and let him fill all the bags and
säcks he had brought with him.
But when Sintram saw the little boat, he said
it was too small a craft for such a heavy load. The
wicked foundry proprietor had the sacks carried
into one of his big boats, and told his carter, strong
Måns, to row it across the lake. Captain Lennert
had only the little boat to look after.
Still he was left behind, because Måns was a
masterhand at rowing, and was immensely strong.
Captain Lennert sat, too, and dreamed while he
pulled his boat over the beautiful lake and thought
of the wonderful fäte of the grain. Now it would
be cast into the black, ashy earth among the
tree-stumps and the stones, but it would germinate and
strike root in the wilderness. He thought of the soft,
clear, green shoots which would cover the ground,
and in thought he bent down and stroked their
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