The tinker was very much pleased with Sami’s harvest and his wife said very , if he kept on doing like that, he would get along all right, but he must sit down at once and have some supper. The four little children were no longer there. Sami guessed that they were lying out in the asleep. On the fire a pot was now . It was bubbling merrily inside and from under the cover came a very odor. Sami had never been so hungry in his life before, for he had had nothing the whole day but the rest of the piece of bread which the driver had given him the day before in Château d’Æux.  
The woman took the cover off the pot and filled three dishes with the good-smelling soup. Each of the three now placed his dish before him on the ground, and the meal began.
 
Nothing had ever tasted so good to Sami in all his life as this soup. It was not a thin soup, it was as thick as , of cooked peas and potatoes, and with this quite large lumps of meat came into his spoon.
 
When he had finished, the woman said:
 
“You can go to sleep whenever you want to. In the back of the wagon there is room, and your bundle will make............