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long pieces of grass-green sugar. The steam
was pungent, and the air in here penetrated our
tongues – it was just as if one had a corroded
spoon in one’s mouth. It was really a luxury
to come out again, even into the rarefied copper
smoke, under the open sky.
Steaming, burnt-out, and herbless as the district
is on this side of the town, it is just
as refreshing, green, and fertile on the opposite
side of Fahlun. Tall leafy trees grow close to
the farthest houses. One is directly in the
fresh pine and birch forests, thence to the lake
and to the distant blueish mountain sidcs near
Zäther.
The people here can tell you and show you
memorials of Engelbrekt and his Dalecarlians’
deeds, and of Gustavus Vasa’s adventurous
wanderings. But we will remain here in this
smoke-enveloped town, with the silent street’s dark
houses. It was almost midnight when we went
out and came to the market-place. There was
a wedding in one of the houses, and a great
crowd of persons stood outside, the women
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