"
"Yes.... Yes, of course."
"Building--why, there's no help for it as I can see.. Here's you come
bringing a whole cow to the farm--that means a cowshed, I suppose?"
Poor Inger, not so eternally wise as he, as Isak, that lord of
creation. And this was before she learned to know him, and reckon with
his way of putting things. Says Inger:
"Why, it's never a cowshed you're building, surely?"
"Ho," says he.
"But you don't mean it? I--I thought you'd be building a house first."
"Think so?" says Isak, putting up a face as if he'd never in life have
thought of that himself.
"Why yes. And put the beasts in the hut."
Isak thought for a bit. "Ay, maybe 'twould be best so."
"There," says Inger, all glad and triumphant. "You see I'm some good
after all."
"Ay, that's true. And what'd you say to a house with two rooms in?"
"_Two_ rooms? Oh ...! Why, 'twould be just like other folks. Do you
think we could?"
They did. Isak he went about building, notching his baulks and fitting
up his framework; also he managed a hearth and fireplace of picked
stones, though this last was troublesome, and Isak himself was not
always pleased with his work.
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