Greetings to Otto and tell him that he may expect a gift from me , too . Good-bye . ' The two girls , light of heart , now took their berries and ran off through the wood after the bird ; and soon it began to get lighter in the wood and they wondered how they could have lost their way yesterday , it seemed so easy and plain now . One can imagine what joy there was when the two reached home . Everyone had been looking for them , and the big sister had not been able to sleep , for she thought the wolves had eaten them up . Otto met them ; he had a basket in his hand and said : ` Look , here is something that an old man has just left for you . ' When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones , dark red , and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription : ` To Lisa and Aina ' ; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm : on it was inscribed ` Otto , never destroy the helpless ! ' Otto felt rather ashamed : he quite understood what it meant , but he thought that the old man 's revenge was a noble one . The raspberry king had also remembered the big sister , for when she went in to set the table for dinner , she found eleven big baskets of most beautiful raspberries , and no one knew how they had come there , but everyone guessed . And so there was such a jam-making as had never been seen before , and if you like to go and help in it , you might perhaps get a little , for they must surely be making jam still to this very day . From Z. Topelius . The Stones of Plouhinec Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ` Kenneth ; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army ' of Napoleon . If so , you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat . One of the soldiers , a Breton , often tried to make them forget how cold and hungry they were by telling them tales of his native country , Brittany , which is full of wonderful things . The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children , but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver . It was then that the Breton would begin : ` Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea , ' and would continue until Kenneth or Effie would interrupt him with an eager question . Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale , and was obliged to begin all over again , so the story lasted a long while , and by the time it was ended the children were ready to be rolled up in what ever coverings could be found , and go to sleep . It is this story that I am going to tell to you . Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea . Around it stretches a desolate moor , where no corn can be grown , and the grass is so coarse that no beast grows fat on it .
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