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sucked another knife, and put it away ready for the next
comer. I ate a few square feet of^ the fladbröd and
left the bacon. A Scandinavian piece of antiquity
was then handed to me; it was a wooden tankard, or
rather bucket, capable of holding about three quarts,
having a carved cover, the sides plain, and about three
quarters of an inch thick. It contained beer, but
as the dirty man had just been drinking out of it, and
sucking the thick wooden edge as he did the blade of
the knife, I refused the antiquity and asked for water.
This was brought in a basin, the same sort as is usually
supplied in these parts for washing.
After supper I was shown into a dirty double-bedded
room, the dirty man lying on his back smoking in the
best bed of the two. The bed left for me was a kind of
stout coffin, or egg-chest, with some straw covered with
canvas for the mattress, and a dirty rug for the
covering. The bed was placed close by a window and exactly
over the head of the bed, and about eighteen inches
above it was a broken pane of glass; a piece of paper
was pasted over the hole, but it only adhered by the
upper part, the rest forming a flap which accurately
directed a jet of air upon the place to be occupied by
the head of the sleeper. The window faced due north,
and the wind was blowing from the north with
occasional showers. I laid down with my clothes on, to
avoid contact with the earth-coloured canvas, and dirty
rug. I tried to move the bed, but could not; tried to
stop up the window and failed. The prospect of
earache, stiff neck, and rheumatism in the shoulder, being
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