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Wild ducks . . Qd. each. 



Black game . . Is. Qd. per brace. 



Hazel grouse . . Is. per brace. 



Potatoes, about . Is. 2d. per English bushel. 



Tobacco ... Is. 6d. to 2s. perlb. 



Beer . . . 3d. per bottle. 



Porter . . . 6d. per bottle. 



Coffee 9d. per Ib. 



White sugar . . Id. per Ib. 



Butter . . . 7d. to Is. per Ib. 



Milk (new) . . 4<d. per karma. 



Pike and perch . 2d. per Ib. 



Clothes of all kind (except, perhaps, shoes and boots) 

 are much dearer than in England. We had a shop close to 

 us, and a shoemaker and tailor on the premises. It is won- 

 derful how many dependents a Swedish estate owner has 

 about him. On the Gardsjo estate alone there were above 

 120 men, women, and children. 



I never in my life fell among kinder people in sickness 

 than the Swedes. I have been pretty lucky, and I cannot 

 sufficiently thank God that, in a wandering life, I have had 

 so little sickness. But three or four times I have been rather 

 seriously ill here, and then the kindness and sympathy I 

 received from all classes was past belief. As for the peasant 

 women who nursed me, no trouble was too great for them, 

 and there was really something beautiful in the kind atten- 

 tive way in which they waited upon me, and, above all, the 

 cheerful manner in which they anticipated all my querulous 

 wants. The doctors are in general very clever. In the 

 country, a doctor is stationed in every district. He receives 

 a little stipend from Government, and each family pays him 

 a small sum a year, say 2 10s. (and for an accident or 

 serious illness there are cheap and excellent hospitals in 

 every town). This is exclusive of medicines, for doctors 

 rarely dispense here. They write a prescription, which is 

 sent to an apothecary to compound. These chemists appear 

 to have quite a monopoly, and as there is never more 



