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was some quarrelling and disturbance round their
boards, which later turned to violence. It seemed
that to those who saw nothing but want and misery
before them it was a pleasure to hit at something
—it did not matter who it was or what they hit. As
soon as the strong and pugnacious saw that a fight
was going on, they rushed in from all sides. The
cavaliers intended to put a stop to it in their own
way, and the dale folk hurried to the help of the
West Göthlanders.
Strong Måns from Fors was the man who was
in the very midst of it. He was drunk and angry.
He had knocked a West Göthlander down and
began to maul him, but at a cry for help the West
Göthlanders rushed to the assistance of their
countryman, and tried to compel Måns to release his
victim. Then Måns turned over some piles of cloth
from one of the boards, grasped the board itself,
which was a yard broad and eight yards long and
was composed of a number of thick planks, and
began to swing it about as a weapon. Strong Måns
was a fearful man. He had once kicked out the wall
of the jail in Filipstad, and he could lift a boat out
of the lake and carry it on his shoulders. And now
you can imagine that, when he began to strike
about him with the heavy board, the crowd
retreated, as also did the West Göthlanders. But he
came after them, swinging his mighty club about
him. It was no longer a question for him of friends
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