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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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BIOGRAPHY. 18

broken a decanter and three glasses, for which she wished
to make conipensation with her penny. My mother could
not help laughing. Fredrika got a slight scolding, and
was allowed to keep her penny.

Fredrika and I had each three dolls, with very hand-
some wardrobes for them. As I was of a very quiet na-
ture, and very orderly, my dolls were as carefully tended as
if they had been little children, and I felt for them as a
real mother. They were undressed every evening and put
to bed, and were dressed again regularly every morning.
Fredrika’s dolls, on the contrary, were often much neg-
lected. They remained occasionally dressed for a fort-
night together ; and if they happened to be once undressed,
they usually remained undressed for an equally long time,
and were then lying about in their chemises in the corners
of the nursery. At last she got quite tired of her dolls,
and I, who used to pity them very much, undertook to at-
tend to them; but I got tired of this after some time, and
complained that it was really too much for me to manage
six children. Fredrika then made an agreement with little
Hedda, that if she would take “charge of her dolls, she
should have a piece of gingerbread every time Fredrika
got any, and also, now and then, a piece of confectionery ;
but not every time that Fredrika got any, because she was
very fond of it herself. Hedda held boldly out for the
confectionery, and the matter was ultimately arranged to
her satisfaction ; but Fredrika undertook to dress her dolls
elegantly every time they were invited to a ball.

Every Christmas Eve, our parents had the kindness to
give us as much pleasure as possible. In the large draw-
ing-room a Christmas table was set out, literally covered
with all kinds of good things. Each child had its jul-hég,
or yule-heap, of saffron-bread, buns, and wheaten cakes,
and, besides, plates full of raisins, almonds, nuts, and
sweetmeats; and before every heap stood a three-branched
wax candle.

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