ABSTRACT
And Hjalmar saw how this Ole Luk-Oie rode away, and took young people as well as old upon his horse. Some of them he put before him, and some behind; but he always asked first-“How stands it with the mark-book?” “Well,”—they all replied. “Yes, let me see it myself,” he said; and then each one had to show him the book; and those who had “very well,” and “remarkably well,” written in their books, were placed in front of his horse, and a lovely story was told to them; while those who had “middling,” or “tolerably well,” had to sit up behind, and heard a very terrible story indeed. They trembled and wept, and wanted to jump off the horse, but this they could not do, for they had all, as it were, grown fast to it.
