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“ Twelve years,” said I hastily.
“ Well, then you must pay full fare.”
I don’t know how I looked outside at that
minute. I know that inside of me I was utterly
aghast. Suppose I didn’t have money enough!
And I had told a lie!
Now my purse is a little bit of a thing,
hardly big enough for you to get three fingers
in. I took it out rather hurriedly—everv thing
that I undertake always goes with a rush,
Mother savs. How it happened I don’t know,
but my five-crown note whisked out of my
hånd, over the railing and out to sea.
“ Catch it! Catch it! ” I shouted.
“ That is impossible,” said the mate.
“ Yes, ves! Put out a boat! ” I cried. All
the passengers crowded together around
us.
“ Did the five crowns blow away? ” piped
Karsten.
“ Was it, perhaps, the only one you had? ”
asked the mate. Ugh! how horrid he was.
Storekeeper Andersen and Mrs. Tellefsen and
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