Chapter 18 No.18

It was Pelle who, one day in his first year at school, when he was being questioned in Religion, and Fris asked him whether he could give the names of the three greatest festivals in the year, amused every one by answering: "Midsummer Eve, Harvest-home and-and--" There was a third, too, but when it came to the point, he was shy of mentioning it-his