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perception, I maintain to be my property quite as much and
even more than if I had acquired it by any legal purchase.
What I thus obtain through God’s mercy, that I take, I
have, and I keep, and nobody can deprive me of it; it is
actually and indisputably mine. I consider myself, there-
fore, fully entitled to say not only my window, but also my
prospect, my hills, my windmills, my market-place, my miar-
ket-women, tables, vegetables, etc., etc. —in a word, my
large household, my pantry in the market-place ; it is all, all
my individual property, the same as the large magnificent
cupola above it in which the sun and the stars are shining.
My market-place is a comfortable market-place; it has
no sanguinary memories, like most of the other market-
places in Stockholm. Peaceful industry and peaceful trades
have there set out their tables, loaded with inland produce.
You may every day witness the silent, pleasant bustle of
buyers and sellers surrounding the tables, covered with every
thing necessary for the requirements of the body. But
what you cannot see as well as he who lives at the market-
place, is how its life begins, how it moves and stirs from
morning till night; and it is not uninteresting to contem-
plate it now and then. ;
The first groups that make their appearance at early
dawn, are the breakfast-groups; the first tables that are
laid out are the coffee-tables. There are two or three
right in the centre of the square. Comfortably dressed
sales-women present themselves with gigantic coffee-urns,
carried in enormous baskets, wrapped in liner cloth. Work-
people gather round them from all sides, each paying their
half-penny, for which they receive in exchange a cup of the
steaming beverage with cream and a piece of sugar. Bread
must be bought separately. The breakfast in the open air
looks very comfortable. Some Dalecarlian peasant girls
and “Madams,” 7.e. women wearing bonnets, make their
appearance at the upper end of the square. Then tables
are laid out, and are covered with vegetables and fruit.
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