coat with pearls on the collar. Perhaps he has taken you to see
all the countries of the world and the peoples, the cold waste
lands and the burning deserts, the many coloured men and the wild
creatures in the sea and in the woods, so that you may earn many
things, but come gladly home again. Yes, who knows? Perhaps you
also have sailed round the wide world once in a pea-shell boat.

From Z. Topelius.






'Moti'




Once upon a time there was a youth called Moti, who was very big
and strong, but the clumsiest creature you can imagine. So clumsy
was he that he was always putting his great feet into the bowls
of sweet milk or curds which his mother set out on the floor to
cool, always smashing, upsetting, breaking, until at last his
father said to him:

'Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of
years; take them and go and make your living or your fortune if
you can.'