the friendship of Stobaeus for his share in the trans- 

 action 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



[HEN Linnaeus arrived at Upsala he had 

 one marked distinction, according to his 

 own account he was the poorest student 

 that ever knocked at the gates of the Uni- 

 versity for admittance. Perhaps this is a 

 mistake, for even though the young man 

 had patched his shoes with birch bark, he was not in 

 debt. And the youth of twenty-one who has health, 

 hope, ambition and animation is not to be pitied. 

 Poverty is only for the people who think poverty. 

 It is five hundred English miles from Lund to Upsala. 

 After his long, weary tramp Linnaeus sat on the edge 

 of the hill and looked down at the scattered town of 

 Upsala in the valley below. A stranger passing by 

 pointed out the college buildings, where a thousand 

 young men were being drilled and disciplined in the 

 mysteries of learning. 



"And where is the Botanical Garden?" asked the 

 newcomer. 



It was pointed out to him. He gazed on the site, 

 studied the surrounding landscape carefully, and 

 mentally calculated where he would move the Botan- 

 ical Garden as soon as he had control of it. 

 Let us just anticipate here long enough to explain that 

 the Upsala Botanical Garden now is where Linnaeus 

 said it should be. It is a most beautiful place, lined off 



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