THE LINDEN-TREE OF LINNHULT 3 



'Ah, to be sure there is a difference.' 



( So the English people really care about our 

 Linnaeus ? This is delightful.' 



It seems very amusing to them likewise. The train 

 was still waiting, and would have carried us on farther 

 had we been misled. 



Meanwhile mistress and maid draw out a bed which 

 shuts up telescope-fashion at the foot, and prepare a 

 sofa whose cover lifts off, and, drawing out at the side, 

 formsia trough-like receptacle for an extra guest. All 

 sofas, however splendid the apartment, are thus formed 

 as spare beds in Sweden. Going to bed here is like 

 laying oneself by in a drawer. Presently the round 

 table, sleek with white linen, is spread with a star- 

 shaped arrangement of tiny glass dishes of relishes, 

 served to provoke appetite (they do this with hungry 

 English people), to be removed by a second course of 

 exquisitely cooked cutlets and potatoes a pleasant 

 sight at 11 P.M. for famished travellers weary with the 

 time-murdering train, that dawdles fifteen minutes at 

 every wayside station, where there seems no excuse for 

 having a station at all ; and, besides these, a junction 

 at every alternate station gives one ample time for 

 making excursions in the district. The groaning 

 train of timber-trucks stretching from horizon to 

 horizon, with some pig and cattle vans, and a pas- 

 senger carriage at the end of all as a concession, steams 

 slowly in and out of each station at one-horse no, 

 one-donkey or puppy-dog power. Let not over-wise 



