But when we had had the lamp a short time, father planed the walls of the dwelling-room all smooth and white, and they never got black again, especially after the old stove, which used to smoke.
Translated by R. Nisbet Bain
When father bought the lamp, or a little before that, he said to mother:
“Hark ye, mother—oughtn’t we to buy us a lamp?”
“A lamp? What sort of a lamp?”
“What! Don’t you know that the storekeeper who lives in the market town has brought from St. Petersburg lamps that actually burn better than ten PAREA? [a resinous pine chip, or splinter, used instead of torch or candle to light the poorer houses in Finland.] They’ve already got a lamp of the sort at the parsonage.”
Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt (11 September 1861 – 8 August 1921), was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature twelve times.
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First published: 1883
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