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WHEN FATHER BROUGHT HOME THE LAMP.
their chirping was never heard any more in the dwelling room. Father did n't care a bit, but we children felt, now and then, during the long winter evenings, a strange sort of yearning after old times, so we very often found our way down to the bath-house to listen to the crickets, and there was Pekka sitting out the long evenings by the light of his päre.
