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Poulsson.
Boston, Ma
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KNUT SPELEVINK[1]
Knut was a poor orphan boy who lived with his grandmother at Perlebank in a little hut on the shore.
He had a shirt, a jacket, a pair of trousers and a cap; and what more does one need in summer? In winter he had woolen stockings and birch-bark shoes. That wasn't so little, after all. He was cheerful—always happy indeed, though always hungry. It is a great art to know how to be happy and hungry at the same time!
His good grandmother was so poor that she seldom had enough food for the boy to eat all he wanted. She spun woolen yarn and sent Knut with it to Mr. Peterman's grand estate, The Ridge,
