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SKETCHES. 301
inviting at a distance, but afford, upon closer inspection,
subjects for less agreeable thoughts ; the six-stiver cake has
a hole in the centre as large as a small tea-cup and the
four-stiver wheaten bread is so small and gray, aud looks so
miserable, that if IL or my friend were obliged to eat it I
believe that I would first have to moisten it with — a few
tears. “ Hard times for the poor,” people say, and go past.
Next in order come the flour-stands,— small boxes on
wheels, beside which floury “ Madams,” sometimes men,
covered with meal, weigh out the produce of the mills.
Here in the vicinity are also seen pease, beans. groats, etc.,
etc. Nearly in a line with these come the booths with
canvas-roofs, where a variety of smaller articles of dress,
from woolen socks up to gauze caps, toys for children, rib-
bons, and all kinds of wares, are sold cheap. Between these
stand small tables with bread, sugar-candy, fruit, etc. Lower
down, in a line with all these lines, we see the beef and
pork sellers at their tables, and those who sell butter, and
eggs, and salt-salmon in large tubs. In this neighborhood
every thing is more higeledy-piggledy ; sweetmeats jostling
eggs, and brooms poked in amongst the butter; window
ornaments, made of the beautiful reindeer lichen, mixed
with green moss and red barberries, are thrust in be-
tween turkeys and smoked goose-breasts. Ragged wonen
are seen trudging in from the forests, carrying fresh spruce- -
fir branches and fragrant juniper twigs.
This division of the market-place, commencing at the
Bazaar — I must apologize to its “Madams” for not
having mentioned them earlier — where all kinds of nice
stone-wares are exposed in groups for sale, is bounded bya
line of one-horse milk-carts, where Dalecarlian and rosy
cheeked milk-maids, with pink checked handkerchiefs on
their heads, are enthroned on their vehicles, retailing the
beautiful white beverage, which, alas! is said to be mixed
sometimes with a little water. These milk-carts all turn
their backs towards the lane dividing the market-place into
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