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26 BIOGRAPHY.
always two pair of carriage-horses in their stables during
the winter. My mother’s, a pair of stately, beautiful “ Isa-
belles,’ were used by her alone when paying visits, or
when, with one of her friends, she took a drive out through
“ Norrtull,” — in those days the favorite drive of the fashion-
able world. My father always drove his fiery, splendid
black horses to run down to Arsta, or sometimes when he
went out for an airing, which he preferred doing in the
afternoon at dusk. He then always took two of the chil-
dren with him, in order that they might breathe the fresh
air, of which, however, they could not get much in a covered
sledge with only one window let down. We did not par-
ticularly enjoy these excursions. Scarcely a word was then
spoken, and we always went my father’s favorite road, —
from Regerings-gatan,” where we then lived, past St.
John’s church-yard, and out through “ Roslags-tull.”
Between the age of nine and twelve, Fredrika and I
studied the English and German languages; made great
progress in history, geography, &c., &c., and underwent reg-
ularly every year an examination before my father’s early
friend, the Rector of St. Clara’s Church, afterwards Bishop
Franzén. He was pleased with our studies in general, but
astonished at the progress which we had made in geog-
raphy. This we owed to “ Bonne Amie’s” excellent method
of teaching. On the map lying before us, she made us a
present of empires and kingdoms in those parts of the
world which we were studying for the time. When, for
instance, I got France and Fredrika England, we were
very anxious to become thoroughly acquainted with all the
provinces, towns, and rivers, bays and boundaries of the
country which we were governing, and this afforded us a
great deal of pleasure. But Fredrika always knew all the
produce of her kingdom much better than its boundaries ;
the latter she could never remember.
Fredrika had an innate aversion to all kinds of needle-
work. She turned upside down or inside out what she had
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