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window-frames and casings of the log-ends formed a bright con- 

 trast. On the ground-floor were five rooms, beside the entrance 

 and stairs. Of these rooms that in the middle was a cheerful and 

 well-lighted salon or parlour of good size, and over it another, 

 as large, which Wolley used as a bed-chamber. On the left of 

 the entrance was the kitchen, and on the right the store or 

 shop, for the house belonged to a prosperous handelsman, Herr 

 Forsstrom, and was well stocked with all the wares and goods 

 needed by the population, scanty as it was, for many miles round, 

 besides, what was still more attractive to many, very potent 

 hrdnnvin, for scarcely a bargain was concluded without a glass of 

 strong drink. The builder and former owner of the house had 

 become so convinced of the evil attending this habit, that some 

 years before he gave up selling spirituous liquor. In consequence 

 his customers left him, and, almost ruined, he was glad to part with 

 his property. Being by trade a carpenter, he built himself a smaller 

 house higher up the hill, where he somehow managed to maintain a 

 living. He was a Norwegian by birth, but his father had come from 

 Sleswick, and his name Avas Knoblock. To his care was subsequently 

 entrusted the receiving, marking, and booking of all the eggs brought 

 by the collectors in Wolley's employment during WoUey's many 

 absences ; and faithfully he discharged the duty. His two sons were 

 Ludwig and Anton, often named in the following pages, of whom, 

 and the former especially, more must presently be said. The 

 dwelling-house at Muoniovara had the usual surroundings of a 

 Swedish gcird or homestead, forming an irregular square, but each 

 building standing apart. First the p'lrtti or servants^ house, and 

 then the woodshed and magasin or store-house ; next the hay-barn, 

 adjoining the sheep- and cow-house — the last a most important pai't 

 of a northern homestead, — in front of which was the well with its loner, 

 propped lever, weighted with stones at one end and bearing a bucket 

 slung to the other. Somewhere, too, there was a stable ; but horses 

 are not much needed in this part of Lapland. Lastly, a bttle jemoved 

 from the rest, was the bastu, or steam-bath, in regular weekly use by 

 most of the neighbours. The dwelling-house was plainly but not 

 uncomfortably furnished, and the accommodation it afforded, though 

 far from luxvirious, could not reasonably be complained of by anvone 



