UPSALA 103 



fought his way through difficulties in unknown or fresh- 

 broken ground. 



Though genial in temperament Linnaeus cared little 

 for athletic sports. Perhaps few Swedes do. I have 

 seen Swedish boys at brisk play in the gravelled or 

 pebbled squares in front of their grammar schools ; but 

 games do not seem to thrive among them like football 

 does with us. They are such long years behind us with 

 their tools their bicycles, for instance that as we 

 laugh at their i wobbling ' movements we forget how we 

 grinned at our own early velocipedes. They play 

 croquet too, now that it has been for some dozen years 

 superseded by lawn tennis. 



Carl's favourite haunts were beyond Danmark 

 Church and the ten ancient Mora stones, round by 

 Hammarby and Sofja, where the clay soil of Upsala Vale 

 changes into the heathland of the hills consisting of 

 sand and stones ; he was reminded by these glacier-worn 

 rocks of his home in SmSland. Here he could revel in 

 discovery ; here he felt those glorious moments when the 

 soul, risen by hard-won ways mountains high, overlooks 

 the fair world of common things in the clear air, the 

 second heaven, of purity. He prolonged the comfort of 

 these excursions to the latest autumn, ( those seasons of 

 silence and twilight when nature seems to sympathise 

 with the fallen ... to soothe and comfort, to inspire 

 and support the afflicted.' For as time went on and a 

 second winter was approaching a Swedish winter 

 and yet appreciation came not, bringing scholarships 



