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3800 SKETCHES.
You may count about twenty such tables in each row, and
even he who has seen the vegetable markets in other, more
wealthy countries, has very little reason to find fault with
the good quality and the variety of the articles exposed for
sale. Better cabbage-heads are decidedly not found on
the other side of the Atlantic; nowhere are the carrots
more beautiful, more sweet, and nowhere can you find
better potatoes.
The vegetables do good to our eyes, they look so fresh
and so crisp. The tables belonging to the fruit-women are
not so well furnished, and we see turnips and other plebeian
round-heads intruding amongst the apple, pear, and berga-
mot baskets, in order to fill up the vacant places on tlie
tables. These vegetable venders evidently consider them- ,
selves to be the aristocracy of the market. They wear
bonnets and style themselves “Mistress.” Their group
occupies the upper part of the square. Next after the veg-
etable-sellers come the potato-groups in small families of
sacks and measures. In the centre thereof “ Mother” is
seated upon a chair, sometimes upon a sack filled with
potatoes, quietly waiting for her admirers, who never fail
to arrive, carrying away one sack after another. The
“Mother ” of the potato-family does not wear a bonnet but
ahood. In the third row the fish-women are seated, each
in a wooden tub with a high back to lean against, and be-
fore them large pails and tables full of fish in season, from
the Baltic as well as from the Milar Lake.
In the fourth row stand the tables and bins filled with
all the various kinds of Swedish bread, of which I will only
mention brown, sour bread (here called anchor-stocks), rye-
biscuits, rye and wheaten cakes, buns, penny rolls, aniseed-
bread, French bread, almond-bread, saffron-cakes, rusks,
and twists of all kinds. A little pale but sharp-looking
girl of eleven years is sitting at one of these tables, as
shrewd and clever at her business as any “Madam” of
forty ; but it is not a good school. The bread-tables look
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