96 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



does not mind roughing it, and can make himself tolerably 

 comfortable in peasants' quarters, after he has once mastered 

 a little of the language, and got a footing in the country > 

 and who wishes to enjoy a little fair fishing and shooting^ 

 Sweden is certainly a cheap country in some respects, and 

 after all a good deal freer than any part of England. Such a 

 man ought to live well on 50 per year, and get some very 

 tolerable sporting, but he must then hire his own room 

 and buy his own provisions. There are many places where 

 a single man can board with a gentleman' s family at about 

 two shillings a day, with a peasant for a little less, and till 

 he gets used to the country, this will be, perhaps, his 

 cheapest plan. But a man with a family will find it very 

 difficult to get settled. I am certain he will have great 

 difficulty in finding accommodation, and that such a 

 man must reside for some time in a town at English 

 prices, and probably at an inn, before he can settle up 

 country. Very few residents have furnished rooms to 

 let, and although a single man may obtain quarters any 

 where, it will be very difficult for a man with a family. A 

 gentleman with his wife and two small children and nurse- 

 maid could not get board and lodging any where in Werm- 

 land under ten shillings a day; and this very gentleman 

 who had come over from Belgium, said that with his family 

 he could live there far cheaper than in Sweden, and much 

 more comfortably, inasmuch that one franc, of which he 

 got about twenty-five for the English pound, would go as 

 far as the rix- dollar in Sweden, of which he got about seven- 

 teen for the pound. But if he hires his own little place and 

 takes Swedish servants, and buys his own provisions, he 

 may certainly do it for less ; but this he can't think about 

 until he has been at least six months in the country. 



I have tried different plans. I have lived with gentle- 

 men and with peasants, and I have hired my own room, 

 and bought my own provisions. The latter was by far the 

 most independent but the dearest plan, for I was never a 

 very good economist. If a man really means to settle, he 

 had far better hire a small place, with a few acres of ground, 



