Torfi

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They gave each other many and heavy blows, but the fisherman was the more warlike, until Torfi tackled low, grasped him round the waist, and did not let up in the attack until he had the fisherman doubled up with his chin against his knees.

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All that summer Torfi stood up to his hips in mud digging ditches, and when the bottom was worn out of his shoes and the soles of his feet began to get sore from the shovel, he hit on a plan: he cut the bottom out of a tin can and stuck his toe into the cylinder.

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The fisherman was not a generous man and gave Torfi the smaller share of the food.

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But that summer there was an epidemic among the children, and Torfi

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Torfi thought, but that's the end of that -- that's how it had to be.

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Torfi was all black and blue and bleeding, hot and panting after the struggle.

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To this Torfi made no answer, but always stole a bite for the dog when the fisherman had gone to bed.

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Oh, it's not much of a sheep country here in the west, said Torfi

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But even soft iron can be whetted sharp, and now Torfi

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