And what's yours?" "Isak.

" Isak did not go out at once to see her off, but waited quite a while.

"God or the devil," muttered Isak, who did not use words lightly.

"You're early about," says Isak, and that was all.

Ho, that Isak with his secrets and his lordly ways!

Here's you come bringing a whole cow to the farmthat means a cowshed, I suppose?" Poor Inger, not so eternally wise as he, as Isak, that lord of creation.

" "Think so?" says Isak, putting up a face as if he'd never in life have thought of that himself.

" Isak thought for a bit.

Then by September: "This won't do," said Isak.

"I've ordered some glass windows," said Isak.

But there was another matter Isak had thought of times out of number: that Goldenhorns, where had she come from, whose had she been?

"You're through with it already?" said Isak.

What do you say, Isak?" "Wedded?" says Isak.

Isak walked bareheaded, in Jesu name, a sower.

Isak could make a feast of them on Sundays, with a mess of cream from Goldenhorns' milk.

"What for?" said Isak, looking all surprised.

"What did I say," said Isak, stiff-necked and hard.

"I wish you could manage to make another bed," she said to Isak one day.

Isak hung it up on the wall, and set it at a guess, wound it up, and let it strike.

Isak was building againwhat was he building now?

Isak was terror-stricken and said not a word.

And turning to Isak: "As a matter of fact, they ought to give you the place for nothing, and pay you into the bargain, the way you've worked.

Once the passenger took a flask from his pocket and drank; offered it to Isak, who declined.

Yes...." "And where will you be going, now?" asked Isak.

DINESEN, ISAK, pseud.