Lisa, who tells the story, lives on Middle Farm with her parents and two brothers. Britta and Anna live at North Farm and Olaf and Kerstin live at South Farm. It is because the houses are right next door to each other and because the children make so much racket that the farmhouses...
We all crept through the branches of the linden tree as quietly as we could. Karl had brought his flashlight, and he flashed it on Olaf's bed. There he lay, fast asleep, with the black thread trailing out of his mouth. Oh, I got scared! What if it should hurt a lot, and Olaf...