80 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



shows its flowers, the stalk becomes woody, 

 and no longer eatable; 



The sinews of which the fine thread is 

 made that, when covered with tin, serves 

 for embroidery, and is called tentrud (tin- 

 thread), are taken from the feet of the 

 reindeer, or of oxen, boiled ; though some- 

 times the feet of sea-fowl are chosen for 

 this purpose. Old women and girls are 

 employed in preparing this thread, by 

 drawing it through holes made in a piece 

 of reindeer'» horn. Tbey wind it round 

 their hands and feet as they form it, and 

 smear it with fat extracted from the foot 

 of the animal, to make it more supple, as 

 they proceed. 



Hay is made in different modes in va^ 

 rious parts of Sweden. In Westbothland 

 the fresh-cut grass is heaped together aver 

 night, that it may get a heat. Next day 

 it is spread out, and by this method its 

 quality is supposed to become richer and 

 stronger. The same is practised with hopg 



