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8 BIOGRAPHY.
Natt-och-Dag, while her husband, Admiral Bjelkenstjerna,
was out in the German Thirty Years’ War.)
When we had alighted from the carriage, and entered
the spacious, vaulted hall, rising through three storeys, with
its high stone pillars and double staircases, we were de-
lighted, and asked permission to run up and down them,
which was willingly granted, as being the best means of
keeping us out of the way while every thing was taken out
of the carriages. We must have. been indulging in this
pleasure of running up one pair of stairs and down another
a long time, for I remember our being very hot and very
tired when we were called in to eat our supper and go to
bed.
Now came a happy time for us. When we had finished
our lessons at one o’clock, we were allowed to go down
into the large garden, and to take long walks in the after-
noon with “ Bonne Amie,” after she had had her tea. We
thought it wonderfully delightful to run out and play about.
In town we had scarcely ever permission to go out.
Happy. beyond measure were we to hear the little birds
sing; to gather flowers and fruit; but as happy as the
curate’s children, that we clearly saw we should never be.
One day, when our carriage-horses had to be exercised,
1 Arsta belonged in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the German
order of the Knights of the Sword. It was afterwards sold, and became
in the year 1500 the property of Axel Laurson Tott, after ‘which it became
an heir-loom in the Bjelkenstjerna and Fleming Gunilics: — See Ground-
rent Book of the County of Upland, 1680, and Tham’s Description of the
Province of Stockholm.
In July, 1621, Gustavus Adolphus assembled his army and fleet to lead
them in person across the Baltic to Riga. From the port of Elfsnabben,
where the fleet was lying at anchor, detained hy contrary winds, Gustavus
Adolphus proclaimed his Articles of War, drawn up hy himself, and writ-
ten hy his own hand. These Articles of War were read aloud for the first
time by the Chancellor, Axel Oxenstjerna, to the army, consisting of 20,000
men, drawn up in hattle array on the fields of Arsta. The whole royal
family was there assembled on that occasion. — See Geyer’s History of the
Swedes.
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