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THROUGH SWEDEN. 67
purpote of indulging in epicurean extravagance, but from the fole
motive of enjoying one another’s company.. The Swedith dinner
parties are expenfive arrangements of fhew and formality. It will
eften happen that out of forty or fifty people, who appear in con-
fequence of an invitation fent with all poffible ceremony, and
perhaps a week or a fortnight before the appointed day, f{carcely
three or four know one another fufficiently to make the meeting
agreeable, A foreigner may ftill fare wore, and haye the misfor-
tune of being feated near a perfon totally unacquainted with any
language but his own. Before the company fit down to dinner,
they firft pay their refpects to a fide table, laden with bread, but-
ter, cheefe, pickled falmon, and /gqueur, or brandy; and by the
tafting of thefe previous to their repaft, endeavour to give an edge
to their appetite, and to ftimulate the {tomach to perform its of-
fice. After this prelude, the guefts arrange them(felves about the
dinner table, where every one finds at his place three kinds of
bread, flat and coarfe rye bread, white ‘bread, and brown bread.
The firft fort of bread is what the peafants cat; at is crifp and dry:
the fecond fort is common bread; but the brown, laft mentioned,
has: a fweet tafte, being made with the water with which the
vellels in the fugar-houfes are wafhed, and is the naftieft thing
poffible. Allthe difhes are at once put upon the table, but no
one is allowed ‘to afk for what he likes beft, the difhes being
‘handed round in regular fucceffion ; and an Enghfhman has often
eccafion for all his patience to wait till the one is putin motion
‘on ‘which he has fixed his ichoice. The Swedes are more know-
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