LITTLE GADDESDEN. 21 7 



Pea* and was used as food for swine. The pease-straw 

 stack had the same shape as the haystacks hereabouts, 

 that is to say, it resembled a holada, hay-lathe. Its 

 length was 20 feet, breadth 16, height at the sides 4 feet 

 6 inches, but in the middle of the gable-end, or up to the 

 ridge, as it were, 10 feet. On the top it was thatched 

 with wheat straw. Round about it was fenced in with 

 sloe, omgardad med Slan, which was set close beside 

 it, and prevented the cattle from coming near it. 



Rof-kals eller Rof-blads nytta til Sallad eller 

 Gron-kal. 



Turnip-tops used for Salad or as Greens. 



It is well known that here in England [T. I. P. 219] 

 it is the custom to sow turnips on the ploughed fields as 

 fodder for sheep ; on which they go and bait — of which 

 more further on. The turnips consequently stand in the 

 fields at this time of year. The women are in the habit 

 of cutting off the young delicate leaves, klena bladen, 

 which shoot out at this season, and prepare them in the 

 same way as we prepare spinach, Spinat, in Sweden, 

 with a little butter, and eat it so with their roast meats, 

 Stekar. One who has not eaten it would have difficulty 

 in imagining what an agreeable and well-flavoured dish, 

 ratt, this is. They said that the turnip leaves are 

 no use at any other time of year but this, for that 

 purpose. 



Igelkottar. Hedgehogs are found in this district 

 wild. The carls brought me one, which they had taken 

 on the ground, and which afterwards quietly decamped, 

 practicerade Sig Ut, through the door at night. An 

 old farmer told me that they suck the milk from cows, 



* Still called " Maple Pea," 1886. [J. L.] 



