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is not so rigorously guarded against. On the other holy 

 days, Helgedagar, except Sunday, such as the second 

 and third days in great high-feasts, stora hogtider, 

 the Feast of the Annunciation, Midsummer-day, &c, a 

 service it is true is observed in the church, but all work 

 is carried on exactly the same as on any week day. In a 

 word, they are observed here in the same way as Apostle 

 days in Sweden. 



Angelska Qvinfolkens klader-dragt, maner, &c. 



English women's costumes, habits, &c. 



When the English women in the country are going 

 out to pay their compliments to each other, they com- 

 monly wear a red cloak, klades-kapa. They also wear 

 their pattens, jarn-skor, under their ordinary shoes 

 when they go out, to prevent the dirt on the roads and 

 streets from soiling their ordinary shoes. All go laced, 

 and use for everyday a sort of Manteau, made commonly 

 of brownish Camlot. The same head-dress as in London. 

 Here it is not unusual to see a farmer's or another small 

 personage's wife clad on Sundays like a lady of ' quality ' 

 at other places in the world, and her every-day attire in 

 proportion. ' Paniers,' Styf-Kjortlar, are seldom used 

 in the country. When they go out they always wear 

 straw hats, halm-liattar, which they have made them- 

 selves from wheat-straw, and are pretty enough. On 

 high days they have on ruffles, manchetter. One 

 hardly ever sees a woman here trouble herself in the 

 least about outdoor duties, such as tending, at vara 

 med, in the arable and meadows, &c. The duty of the 

 women in this district scarcely consists in anything else 

 but preparing food, which they commonly do very well, 

 though roast beef and Pudding forms nearly all an 

 Englishman's eatables. 



Besides that, they wash and scour dishes and floors, 



