Excerpt: ...and an empty sheath with his oar-blade. He recognised them at once as his brother's. The tarred wire covering of the sheath had been loosened and bleached by the sea; and he remembered quite well how, when his brother had sat and cobbled away at this sheath, he had chatted and argued with him about the leather for his belt which he had taken from an old horse which they had lately killed. They had bought the buckle together over at the storekeeper's on the Saturday, and mother had sold bilberries, and ...
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Excerpt: ...and an empty sheath with his oar-blade. He recognised them at once as his brother's. The tarred wire covering of the sheath had been loosened and bleached by the sea; and he remembered quite well how, when his brother had sat and cobbled away at this sheath, he had chatted and argued with him about the leather for his belt which he had taken from an old horse which they had lately killed. They had bought the buckle together over at the storekeeper's on the Saturday, and mother had sold bilberries, and capercailzies, and three pounds of wool. They had got a little tipsy, and had had such fun with the old fishwife at the headland, who had used a bast-mat for a sail. So he took the belt away with him, and said nothing about it. It was no good giving pain to no purpose, thought he. But the longer the winter lasted the more he bothered himself with odd notions about what the parson had said. And he knew not what he should do in case he came upon something else, such as another boot, or something that a squid, or a fish, or a crab, or a Greenland shark might have bitten off. He began to be really afraid of rowing out in the sea there among the skerries. And yet, for all that, it was as though he were constantly being drawn thither by the hope of finding, perhaps, so much of the remains as might show the parson where the soul had been, and so move him to give them a Christian burial. He took to walking about all by himself in a brown study. And then, too, he had such nasty dreams. His door flew open in the middle of the night and let in a cold sea-blast, and it seemed to him as if his brother were limping about the room, and yelling that he must have his foot again, the Draugs were pulling and twisting him about so. For hours and hours he stood over his work without laying a hand to it, and blankly staring at the fifth wall1. At last he felt as if he were really going out of his wits, because of the great responsibility he had taken upon himself by...
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