It was hope in a
new life as beautiful as the first had been. Then Sami said his evening
prayer gladly and fell asleep.
CHAPTER FIFTH
THE BIBDS ARE STILL SINGING
The next morning when Sami sat at the table with the family, no one said
a word to him. The farmer's wife pushed a piece of bread towards his
coffee-cup and made up an unfriendly face. The farmer was no different.
The three boys looked sourly down at their coffee-cups, for they had no
good consciences, and all three feared that their lies of the day before
might yet be found out, if Sami should happen to speak.
When they rose from the table, the farmer said shortly:
"Get your bundle! I shall have to lose more time with you, until I have
found a place for you, for surely no one will want you."
Since the night before a change had taken place in Sami. He no longer
hung his head, as he had done almost always before from fear; he lifted
it up and said:
"I know already where I must go."
The farmer and his wife looked at each other in astonishment.
"I want to go over the mountains," he added.
"Yes, that is best, that he should go back there, where he came from,"
said the farmer's wife quickly; "there will no doubt be someone going
over there from the inn. Go quickly with him up there.
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