Not that Isak was a miser in that way, but the money was clearly his.

Altogether, it came to this: Isak must be Man and Leader againhead of the house, and step in and interfere.

Isak had started on new ground again, before the frost came, to make a bigger cornfield; Isak was a tiller of the soil.

Can you go with me up to the ground again?" Isak was a stony creature, a stump of a man; he did not find it easy to change the subject all at once; he was all preoccupied with thoughts and wondering, and began asking questions of this and that.

" Very well, then, Isak is head of the house, so he should think; now see if Eleseus dares to murmur!

The price of horseflesh had gone up beyond all bounds: when Isak was a boy the best horse could be bought for fifty Daler.

A threshing-floor, you said?" Isak is a child.

Isak was not a man to look about anxiously for what might come; he worked.

Isak may be content, may start with a little thrill of pride; he was the founder of a district, the pioneer.

* Isak is a woodman, felling trees and sawing logs.

And after the child was bornand it was a little girla great big girl, fine-looking and sturdy and soundafter that, Isak must have been a stone and a miserable creature if he had not thanked God.