98 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



these two golden rules never to set foot on any man's land, 

 even the meanest peasant's, without first asking leave ; and, 

 above all, to avoid getting the name of a pot-hunter. If he has 

 a day's shooting or fishing on a gentleman's ground, let him 

 leave a good share of his game behind him, and a few rix- 

 dollars and a glass or two of brandy will obtain him the free 

 run of any peasant's land. As for fishing, he will have little 

 difficulty in obtaining leave to fish as much as he pleases 

 on any water in Wermland with a rod and line ; but there 

 is no real salmon fishing anywhere inland ; and as for 

 the matter of shooting, there will be many wild tracts where 

 he can wander for miles without any one asking him where 

 he is going. 



Of course he must hire a man to row him, and accom- 

 pany him in his forest rambles in fact, as a general rough 

 servant. Such a man he will get for about Is. 3d. per day 

 in the summer, and he must buy a boat for his fishing. A 

 boat will cost him nearly 1, a punt 12s. If he wishes to 

 travel about (and as soon as he becomes known to the neigh- 

 bouring landowners he will have lots of invitations, for 

 Wermland is one of the most hospitable provinces in all 

 Sweden), he can always obtain a peasant's horse and cart 

 for Is. 2d. the Swedish mile, to take him where he wants. 

 His dogs he must feed entirely on oatmeal and milk, and 

 about 1 10s. a year will keep each dog well, and if he 

 reads further on, he will see at what price, and in what man- 

 ner he can feed himself. 



It would be far the best for any man who really wishes to 

 spend two summers and one winter in Sweden, and to give the 

 country a fair trial, to come up to Carlstad in May, as soon 

 as there is open water, and live there till the season sets 

 in, when he must look out for better quarters, and this he 

 will have to leave much to chance. Here he must, of course, 

 take lessons in Swedish, and spend his whole time in master- 

 ing the language. I always found Carlstad a very nice and 

 pretty summer residence, and the people very kind, and it is 

 certainly cheaper than Gothenburg. I may add, that a 

 good many people here speak English, and I know no town 



