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clean, if he would be at peace with them in other things. 

 Hence it is that outside every door there stands a fixed 

 iron, on which the men scrape the mould, and other dirt 

 off their shoes before they step in. The women leave in 

 the passage their pattins, that is, a kind of wooden shoes 

 which stand on a high iron ring. Into these wooden 

 shoes they thrust their ordinary leather, or stuff, shoes 

 (when they go out) and so go by that means quite free from 

 all dirt into the room. In the hall or passage, and after- 

 wards at every door, though there were ever so many one 

 within the other, there lies a mat, Hiatta, tacke, or some- 

 thing else, to still more carefully rub the soil off the shoes, 

 so that it is never, in short, sufficiently rubbed off. 



[T. I. p. 170. J The igth March, 1748. 



Prukost, Breakfast, which here in England was 

 almost everywhere partaken of by those more comfortably 

 off, consisted in drinking Tea, but not as we do in 

 Sweden, when we take a quantity of hot water on an 

 empty stomach, without anything else to it, but the 

 English fashion was somewhat more natural, for they ate 

 at the same time one or more slices of wheat-bread, 

 which they had first toasted at the fire, half-stekt vid 

 Elden, and when it was very hot, had spread butter on 

 it, and then placed it a little way from the fire on the 

 hearth, so that the butter might melt well into the bread. 

 In the summer they do not toast the bread, but only 

 spread the butter on it before they eat it. The cold 

 rooms here in England in the winter, and because the 

 butter is then hard from the cold, and does not so easily 

 admit of being spread on the bread, have perhaps given 

 them the idea to thus toast the bread, and then spread 

 the butter on it while it is still hot. Most people pour a 

 little cream or sweet milk into the teacup, brukas, at 

 sla litet gradda eller sot mjolk i Thee-kuppen, 



