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where on its thorns. Jungstrom called it Ull-rjuf, 

 'wool-stealer,' in consequence, for which name this bush 

 here gave very good reasons. A little ditch drawn along- 

 side the hedge could easily have stopped its bad habit of 

 creeping far from the hedge. In cutting down a hedge, 

 as soon as the trees which were not wanted for erecting 

 a dead hedge were cut down to the ground, there was 

 commonly dug up a narrow ditch close to the hedge, out 

 of which the mould was cast up on the stubs which 

 [T. I. p. 322] were covered with it that the sun might not 

 injure the stubs, but that they might be forced to make 

 stronger shoots, and strike out many scions. 



Helge-dagars flrande i Angland. 



The celebration of Holy Days in England. 



England has nearly the same high-days as we in 

 Sweden, and the Gospels and Epistles for them are also 

 nearly the same ; but the Church ceremonies are ganska 

 skilljaktige, very different. The sermon itself (in the 

 English Church) which is all read from a paper writing, 

 does not last over half-an-hour. The priest does not in- 

 terpret in it the Gospel or Epistles, but he takes some 

 Bible text which he explains and moralises over, and it 

 sometimes happens that in the whole of his sermon no 

 more Scripture Texts are cited and expounded than the 

 single one he has taken for a Text. Sunday is esteemed 

 outwardly in some things very holy, so that no ordinary 

 work is carried on on this day. To dance, play cards, 

 play on an instrument, to hum or sing dances on Sunday 

 is esteemed a very great sin and scandal, and the man 

 who was so indiscreet and transgressed in these respects, 

 might at least in any town, soon place himself in great 

 danger and risk. But to sit all day at the beer-shop, 

 krogen, drink himself drunk, to visit mindre tuk- 

 tiga hus, and pass the day with dissolute scum 



