The army of Norway costs the government about 14,000,000 kroner, or $3,800,000 a year, which is an average of $1.70 per capita of the population, or half the tax paid by the English and Germans.

But in any case, they wanted to have a clear title, without encumbrance, and therefore they offered Isak five hundred Kroner for his share.

The widow had owed his father a few hundred kroner and in order to get back his money he had sold her cabin.

"But if you will leave him with me, I'll pay you twenty kroner for him.