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and rode home with you and locked you up in a
dark room on bread and water for two days and
nights. On the third day you were taken to
your father’s room, he asked you why you had
stolen out of the house? You said you were
misunderstood by everybody in the house and
wanted to emigrate to America. He asked you
if you were sorry you had bitten him in the hand,
you said no. The next day you were sent to
school in the town and were only allowed to return
home for the Christmas holidays. On Christmas
day you all drove to church for the morning
service at four o’clock. A whole pack of wolves
galloped behind the sledge as you drove across
the frozen lake, the winter was very severe and
the wolves were very hungry. The church was
all ablaze with light with two big Christmas trees
before the High Altar. The whole congregation
stood up to sing “Hail, happy morn.” When
they had finished the hymn you told your father
you were sorry you had bitten him in the hand
and he patted you on the head. On the way
back across the lake you tried to jump from the
sledge, you said you wanted to follow the trails
of the wolves to see where they had gone. In
the afternoon you were missing again, everybody
was searching for you in vain the whole night.
The gamekeeper found you in the morning in the
forest asleep under a big fir. There were trails
of wolves all round the tree, the gamekeeper said
it was a miracle you had not been eaten by the
wolves. But the worst of all happened during
your summer holidays when the housemaid found
a human skull under your bed, a skull with a tuft
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