seen such walls. He looked around in consternation. Then the coachman of
the day before came in the door.

[Illustration: "Where have you come from with all your household goods?"]

"Have you had your sleep out?" he said laughing. "Come and have some
coffee with me. Then I will take you to your cousin. Some one else must
carry your bundle. It is too heavy for you."

Sami followed him into the coffee-room. Here the good man kept pouring
out coffee for the boy, but Sami could neither eat nor drink.

When the coachman had finished his breakfast, he rose and started with
Sami on the way to the sergeant's house. It was not far. At the house in
the meadow among the pear-trees he laid Sami's bundle down, shook him by
the hand and said:

"Well, good luck to you. I have nothing to do in there and have
farther to go."

Sami thanked him for all his kindness, and gazed after his benefactor,
until he disappeared behind the trees. Then he knocked on the door. A
woman came out, looked in amazement first at the boy, then at his big
bundle, and said rudely: "Where have you come from with all your
household goods?"

Sami informed her where he had come from and that his grandmother was
Mary Ann, and his father, Sami. Meanwhile three boys had come running up
to them, placed themselves directly in front of him, and were looking at
him from top to toe with wide-open eyes. This embarrassed Sami