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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1153726084
ISBN13: 9781153726085
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...of time.' Hardly had Ulvasa-lady said this before the peasant rose-happy and satisfied-and thanked her for a good answer. Now, at last, he was satisfied, he said. 'Verily, I understand now how you look at it, ' then said Ulvasa-lady. 'Well, I look at it in this way, dear lady, ' said the peasant, 'that everything which kings and priests and noblemen and merchants build and accomplish, can only endure for a few years. But when you tell me that in Ostergotland there will always be peasants who are honour-loving and persevering, then I know also that it will be able to keep its ancient glory. For it is only those who go bent under the eternal labour with the soil, who can hold this land in good repute and honour-from one time to another.' THE HOMESPUN CLOTH Saturday, April twenty-third. The boy rode forward-way up in the air. He had the great Ostergotland plain under him, and sat and counted the many white churches which towered above the small leafy groves around them. It wasn't long before he had counted fifty. After that he became confused and couldn't keep track of the counting. Nearly all the farms were built up with large, whitewashed two-story houses, which looked so imposing that the boy couldn't help admiring them. There can't be any peasants in this land, he said to himself, since I do not see any peasant farms. Immediately all the wild geese shrieked: Here the peasants live like gentlemen. Here the peasants live like gentlemen. On the plains the ice and snow had disappeared, and the spring work had begun. What kind of long crabs are those that creep over the fields? asked the boy after a bit. Ploughs and oxen. Ploughs and oxen, answered the wild geese. The oxen moved so slowly down on the fields, that one could scarcely perceive they were in motion, and the geese shouted to them: You won't get there before next year. You won't get there before next year. But the oxen were equal to the occasion. They raised their...

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