104 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



and all fat things, it seemed as if the corporeal portion 

 of the complete development of these two poor geniuses 

 were at a standstill. Petronius says it is Linnasus who 

 quotes him here ' Poverty is the attendant of a good 

 mind/ ' Never mind,' said Carl, cheerily quoting a local 

 proverb, ' put a Smalander on a barren rock in the sea, 

 and he will manage to make his living.' Artedi shook his 

 head. Less hopeful than Carl, Artedi was pensive and 

 sentimental, and susceptible of soft emotions. Philo- 

 sophy is much, but it is not bread and butter. Carl's 

 pockets were quite empty, and he had no chance of ob- 

 taining private pupils, who, in fact, are seldom put under 

 the care of medical students. It is said he obtained on 

 December 16, 1728, a royal scholarship, of the value 

 of which we are not informed, 1 but which was quite 

 insufficient to maintain him. Stoever denies this, and 

 it seems doubtful. The Englishman has perhaps con- 

 founded this with a bursary he really did afterwards 

 obtain Wrede's exhibition, value about 5Z. 



The woodland soft fruits were all' over ; the nuts 

 would soon be gone too, and the edible roots that the 

 two friends knew so well how to find in summer; 

 the fish, too, that they caught, examined, dissected, 

 cooked, and ate with their rye biscuit, would soon all be 

 locked beneath the ice, as winter fell ' a heavy gloom 

 oppressive o'er their world.' Hitherto they had relished 

 their plain living and high thinking while, over some 

 old book recently ferreted out of the lost corners of the 

 1 Smith. 



