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people streamed up the Broby hills and over the
wide market-place! Booths were raised, where the
town shopmen spread out their goods, while the
dale folk and the West Göthlanders piled up their
wares upon endless rows of boards raised on
trestles, over which white linen canopies hung. There
were numberless rope dancers, hurdy-gurdies, and
blind violin players; also fortune-tellers, sellers of
sweet stuff, and gin shops. Beyond the booths stood
rows and rows of copper and wooden utensils.
Onions and carrots and apples and pears were
offered for sale by the gardeners from the big estates,
and wide patches of ground were covered by
red-brown copper pans with shining tin linings.
Still it was noticeable at the Fair that there was
want in Svartsjö, Bro, and Löfvik and the other
Löfsjö parishes; trade went badly both in the
booths and at the boards. There was more animation at
the cattle market, for there were many who
were obliged to sell both their horses and their cows
to be able to survive the winter. There, also, the
exciting barter and sale of horses took place.
Broby Fair goes gaily, for if you have money
in your pocket for a couple of glasses of gin, you
can keep your spirits up. And it was not alone
the drinking that caused all the jollity; when the
people from the lonely forest huts came down to
the market-place in streams, they were frightened
at first when they heard the roar of all that
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