When he now came down from his room a voice from the barn called out:
"Come here and help pull."

Sami ran along. There stood the two younger boys, Michael and Uli, with
great hoes on their shoulders, and Stoeffi beside a cart which had to be
taken along. They waited for their father, and then all went out to the
field. Here Stoeffi and Sami had to rake together the grass, which the
father cut, and load it on the cart, and bring home to the cows. Michael
and Uli had to hoe the weeds in the next field near by. Now it appeared
that Sami did not know at all how to use the rake, for he had never done
such work.

"He shall weed with Uli, and Michael can do this work," said the farmer.

But when Sami tried to do this, the hoe was too heavy for him, and he
could do nothing.

"Then kneel on the ground and pull them up with your hands," said
the farmer.

Sami squatted down and pulled at the weeds with all his might. The ground
was hard and the work very tiresome. But Sami did not forget how his
grandmother had impressed it upon him to do all his work well and
willingly.

At noon the two weeders took their hoes on their shoulders and Sami had
to pull the cart, which was now much heavier than on the way there. The
boy had to use all his strength, for Stoeffi showed him plainly that he
would not take upon himself the larger part of the work.