The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources

other unions, not altogether founded on love. The bear, the prominent member of the party, was a Swede, and a Swede in a very bad humour. The

ld back, moving his clumsy legs as if his machinery were out of ord

led, having passed the night in the open air for want of shelter. The woman, brown, thin, and bare-

spruces, and came suddenly in sight of a cottage of yellow pine,

the men, the bearer of the organ, and evidently

ful laugh as he said in his own lan

anded his companion, adding, "It br

was turned towards the southern sunshine, the well-kept veget

o his hind legs. The open door of the cottage was suddenly filled. Round-faced, rosy, fair-haired, and eager were they all-father and mother and si

raise bestowed on the entertainment, as well as on his personal appearance. He was a young bear, and his brown coat looked

by his wicked little eyes or his ugly

liberally passed round to the strangers, t

" said the tidy mother

and a shaking of the head, which said

One room it was, but large, and airy too; for it not only stretched from outer wall to outer wall, but from the floor to the high slanting roof. The rafters that cross

pped up as stiff as a stick. It was evidently hungry enough, and n

as soon as her husband had money enough to pay their passage. There was a wild look in the dark woman's eyes and a fierceness in her gestures that made Karin

men, we may say; for the brown hands of the Italians had a strange kind of an animal look about them. The clumsy creature walked hither and thither, and t

o toss it high in the air, catching it as it

urned from himself. He made one stride towards the descending baby, and

put his two strong paws on her shoulder. A heavy blow from the stout stick of the

wide door of the cottage, and then Fra

first rapidly backwards and forwards, and afterwards round and round, so describing the c

round the corner of the house and said, "Jan, I can't se

ot unkindly, into the appealing eyes. His face softened as he saw the little black bow at her

he can wear my little Gustaf's clothes. Perhaps God has let our

ought to have your way," said the husb

erful room as she came out, then stooped to pi

at her throat, and quickly made a sign of laying a baby low in a grave. Then she pressed the l

es, and a tear actually glittered

said Karin distinctl

p to the sky, stretching his arm to its full length; then he thrust out both ha

ds, as if throwing gift

had been spoken in words. She kissed the little brown baby in reply, an

e. Francesca lingered a moment, then caught up a stick from within the enclosure, where Jan had

that was to hide them from sight. There the Italians swung their broad hats, and Fra

to her mother's heart, and thanked

e to the golden house-the