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some with sixteen oars, others with twenty,
nay, even with four-and-twenty, rowed by men
and women, and every boat decked out with
green branches. These, and the varied clothes,
gave to the whole an appearance of something
so festal, so fantastically rich, as one would
hardly think the north possessed. The boats
came nearer, all crammed full of living freight;
but they came silently, without noise or talking,
and rowed up to the declivity of the forest.
The boats were drawn up on the sand: it
was a fine subject for a painter, particularly one
point – the way up the slope, where the whole
mass moved on between the trees and bushes.
The most prominent figures there, were two
ragged urchins, clothed entirely in bright yellow,
each with a skin bundle on his shoulders. They
were from Gagne, the poorest parish in Dalecarlia.
There was also a lame man with his
blind wife: I thought of the fable of my
childhood, of the lame and the blind man: the
lame man lent his eyes, and the blind his legs,
and so they reached the town.
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