LIFE OF LINN-ECS. 
shade of her black eye-brows; and her 
long black hair hung in loose and wild 
confusion about her face. On her head 
she wore a flat red cap; a kind of tip¬ 
pet, two grey jackets, a petticoat of 
the same colour, fastened by a girdle 
round the waist, and a pair of half¬ 
boots, completed her costume. But if 
this untutored daughter of the Lapland 
wilderness had nothing in her appear¬ 
ance to attract admiration, she posses¬ 
sed a kindly heart, and was touched 
with compassion nt the forlorn appear¬ 
ance of the traveller. “Oh! thou poor 
man!” she exclaimed, “what hard des¬ 
tiny can have brought thee hither, to a 
place never visited by any one before ? 
This is the first time I ever beheld a 
stranger. Thou miserable ‘ creature! 
how didst thou come, and whither wilt 
thou go ?” He entreaied her to direct 
him how to continue his journey, with- 
