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Gustavus Vasa, Liberator 101
Isala. But Gustavus had hardly arrived there before
spies entered the house and asked for the fugitive.
Elfsson’s wife was busy baking, and Gustavus stood
beside the oven warming himself. The clever woman
raised her bread-shovel and gave him a smart blow
across his back and cried, "Why do you stand here and
stare at strangers as if you had never seen people be-
fore? Out to your threshing in the barn." Reshuffled
out of the house. The spies could never imagine that
it was the proud Knight Gustavus that this humble
woman could treat with such disrespect, and so hurried
on their way to the next place.
But Sven Elfsson did not think Gustavus sufficient-
ly safe in Isala. So he imbedded him in a big load of
straw and drove out toward the lonely forests. He soon
met some Danish spies. To make sure, they thrust
their spears several times into the straw and wounded
Gustavus in the leg. He quietly bore the pain, and
Sven Elfsson proceeded on his way. He soon noticed
that blood was trickling from the load and staining the
snow. He quickly seized his knife and cut his horse’s
foot till it bled. When new spies arrived and inquired
about the blood stains, he pointed to the bleeding foot
of his horse, and was permitted to go on.
His Appeal to the Dalecarlians. At Christmas time,
1520, he had reached Rattvik, on the east side of Lake
Silja, in the very heart of Dalecarlia. Here, at the close
of the services in church, he spoke openly to the
people for the first time. Later he did the same at
Mora, on the north side of the lake. He spoke vehe-
mently of Christian’s perfidy, which he had personally
experienced, and described the Massacre of Stockholm.
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