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BIOGRAPHY. 17
doubt that she was the authoress; but at all events they
prove that woman’s dependent and subordinate position in
life had already made a deep impression on her childish
mind. They are as follows, without either a comma or full
stop : — ;
can man not learn the art of saving
could not our stronger sex be taught
not from their poor wives all help craving
to save their wages as they ought
to give up cards and take to reading
not novels — no — but books more nieet
and from mad scenes of mirth receding
to fly from art to nature sweet
It does really seem as if the good Fredrika was ready
to become, even as a child, the champion of her sex.
I have heard it said that Fredrika was not an agree-
able child. A child myself, I was unable to judge. Very
kind she was always; “ready to give away indiscrim-
inately the presents which had been given to her,” as she
says of Petrea in “The Home.” In later years I found
that her eyes were very handsome, thoughtful, and ex-
pressing goodness and vivacity; but the head was large
in proportion to the small and slight figure; and the nose
filled up a large place in her physiognomy. Her nose
would probably never have been so large if she had not,
from her earliest childhood, been displeased with its form,
and therefore had determined to improve it; but all her
experiments to this effect resulted in making her nose
swell considerably, become larger and larger, and often
very red. Fredrika had, when a child, an uncommonly
low forehead. She had frequently heard my mother re-
mark this, and she undertook, therefore, one day, to make
it high, by cutting away the hair at the roots all round the
forehead. While occupied with this operation, she heard
my mother’s step, and was as terrified as if she had com-
mitted a crime. My mother, who did not at once perceive
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