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The Floral King. 181
us much pleasure. The afternoons we spent in his
garden, and in the evening we generally played a
game at cards called ‘Frisette,’ together with
the ladies.
“* Sometimes the whole family came to pass a day
with us, and we then sent for a peasant, who played
an instrument resembling a violin, to the strains of
which we danced in the barn of our homestead, and
although the gathering was but small, and the dance
very countrified, the merriment was general. Lin-
nzeus sat and looked on, smoking his pipe whilst we
danced. Sometimes, but very seldom, he danced a
‘ polska,’ a country ring-dance, in which he excelled
all us young men. He was much gratified to see us
really enjoying ourselves, even if in that we became
boisterous, he was only anxious that we should do so
as much as possible. Thése days and hours will
never be effaced from my memory, and to dwell on
them affords me much heartfelt pleasure.”
Linnzus has been blamed for having in particular
favoured ‘his foreign disciples, but there was no real
cause for any such blame, for he was equally kindly
disposed to scatter the treasures of his great learning
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