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14 BIOGRAPHY.
A great number of Christmas-boxes, wrapped up in paper
and sealed, were thrown into the room by a masked figure
with horns on its head, called the yule-buck. We children.
ran a race after the various parcels dancing about on
the floor, and great was the delight when she whose name
was written on the parcel happened to pick it up herself.
That evening was not like any other evening in the whole
year, and I never saw my parents so happy as at the hap-
piness which they gave to their children. We on our
part were inexpressibly delighted and grateful. All fear
of our parents was gone; we only ran about thanking
them and kissing their hands for every new present we
got. Besides many useful presents, we got also a great
number of toys, which afforded us great delight during the
whole of Christmas time; but Fredrika soon began mak-
ing her experiments, and long before the next Christmas
all her beautiful playthings were gone.
At eight years of age Fredrika wrote her first verses in
French to the moon. She has unfortunately burnt them,
and J remember only the first line : —
“*O, corps celeste de la Nature! ””
A couple of years later, she composed a little ballad,
which she also destroyed, but of which she introduced the
first verse in “ The Home,” where she describes herself in
Petrea’s person, letting her compose the same. It is as
follows : —
“Tn the fine palace Elfvakolasti,
Situated in some part of Sverge,
Once resided little Melanie,
Only daughter of Count Stjerneberge.”’
About this time she intended writing a poem, the title of
which, written in large letters, was, “The Creation of the
World.” The creation of the world began with —
CHAOS.
In clouds and gloomy darkness ever lying
Was all the world before,
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