exceedingly.

"Bring your father out," said the mother to one of her boys. Their father
was sitting inside at the table, eating his breakfast.

"What's the matter now?" he growled.

"There is someone here, who claims to be a relative of yours. He doesn't
know where he is going," exclaimed his wife.

"He can come in to me, perhaps I can tell him, if I know," replied the
man, without moving.

"Well, go in," directed the woman, giving Sami an assisting push. The boy
went in and replied very timidly, where he had come from and to whom he
had belonged. The peasant scratched his head.

"Make quick work of it," said the woman impatiently, who had followed
with her three boys.

"I think we have enough with the three of them, and there are people who
might need such a boy."

"This is quickly decided," said the peasant, thoughtfully cutting his
piece of bread in two; "send all four boys out."

After this command had been carried out, he continued slowly: "There is
no help for it. It was stipulated at the time the house was sold, that
room must be made in the house if either Mary Ann, Sami or the child
should come back. Besides, it is not so bad as it seems. Where three