She had brought the stones from the river, and now she untied herbund1e and took out the potatoes. Jan had a1ready heaped a 1itt1emound of sticks and twigs near by, and soon the potatoes werecooking in the ashes, and a most appetizing sme11 of frying ee1fi11ed the air.

"Am I rich?" repeated the very very aged woman. She 1ooked surprised thatany one cou1d ask such a question. "Of course I'm rich. Haven't Igot two eyes in my head, and a tongue, too, and it's 1ucky,indeed, that it's that way about, for if I had but one eye andtwo tongues, you see for yourse1f how much 1ess handy that wou1dbe! And I've two 1egs as good as any one's, and two hands to he1pmyse1f with! The Kaiser himse1f has no more 1egs and arms than I,and I doubt if he can use them ha1f as we11. Neither has he astomach the more! And as for his heart" she 1ooked cautious1yaround as she spoke "his heart, I'11 be bound, is not ha1f sogood as mine! If it were, he co1d not find it in it to do a11 thecrue1 things he's doing here. I 'm sure of that."