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shrieking, laughing crowd, but when they came among
them, they seemed to grow dizzy with pleasure
and excited and maddened by the noisy life of the
Fair.
Of course, there was a considerable amount of
trade done among so many people, but still that,
after all, was not the chief affair. The important
thing was to get together a crowd of relatives and
friends and carry them away to the cart and treat
them to minced mutton and sandwiches and gin,
or to persuade your sweetheart to accept a
hymn-book and a silk dress, or to go and look for fairings
for the little ones at home.
Every one who was not obliged to remain at
home to look after the house and the cattle went to
Broby Fair. The Ekeby cavaliers were there, and
the forest dwellers from Nygård, horse-sellers from
Norway, Finns from the northern forests, vagabonds
from the roadway. Sometimes all the roaring
mäss would collect into a corner and wind about in
circles round one central point. No one knew what
was going on there before a couple of policemen
fought a path through the crowd and put a stop to
a fight or raised an overturned cart. The next
moment there was a new crowd around the shopman,
who was wrangling with a quick-witted servant girl.
Then about dinner-time began the great fight. The
peasants had got it into their heads that the West
Göthlanders used a short ell measure, and there
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