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`` Yes , my predecessor built that . He got the land from the parish free for twenty years , provided he built a house and tilled a tonde of land a year . Those were not such bad conditions . Only he took in too much at a time ; he was one of those people who rake away fiercely all the morning and have tired themselves out before midday . But he built the house well '' -- and Lasse kicked the thin mud-daubed wall -- `` and the timber-work is good . I think I shall break a lot of stone when the winter comes ; the stone must be got out of the way , and it is n't so bad to earn a few hundred kroner . And in two or three years we will make the old house into a barn and build ourselves a new house -- eh , Karna ?