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Well, I'm in want of a herdsman, and will give you a hundred krones for a year -- although it'll be confounded hard for you to earn them from what I can see.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

We get twelve krones a 'fathom' and when I work with a lantern morning and evening, I can break half a fathom in a week.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Lasse had anticipated his wages to the amount of five krones, and had got an old cottager to do his work -- for half a krone and his meals.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

"Altogether I've got fifty krones, and we both have decent clothes to put on; but beyond that I've only got a pair of good hands."

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

When he came back in the autumn, there were three mouths to fill; but then he had a hundred krones to meet the winter with.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

"It must be expensive -- a thousand krones, I suppose, at least,"

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

(Lasse had recently had twenty-five krones left him by an uncle.) "You might very well let fall a word or two about that, so that she shouldn't think we're quite paupers."

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Things looked bad, but Lasse staked his all on one cast, and used the couple of krones he got for the hide of the cow to go to Bornholm.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Twenty-five krones, he said, and it didn't sound anything more than when any of us ask for a piece of bread-and-dripping.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

Could it be true that he had spent five hundred krones in drinking and amusement in one evening?

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911