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There is a sawmill near our house on the shore and it whirrs and saws all day long." "There were sawmills all along the coast," said Gerda. "Birger and I began to count them, and then there were so many other things to see that we forgot to count." Karen stooped down to open the door of the magpie's cage, and he hopped out and began picking up the grain which she held in her hand for him.
Then both little girls shrieked with laughter. Birger said little about the Tomtar and pretended that he did not believe in them at all; but when Gerda set out a dish of sweets for the little old men, he moved it down to a low stool where they would have no trouble in finding it.
For a moment Karen's chin quivered and her eyes filled with tears, as she thought of the pole on the barn at home where she had always fastened her own bundle of grain; but she smiled through her tears and said cheerfully, "The birds of Stockholm will have plenty to eat for one day at least, if all the bundles of grain in the markets are sold." "That they will," replied Birger.
"The postman has just left two big packages," she whispered to her friend. "I looked over the stairs and saw him give them to the maid." "Perhaps one is for me," replied Karen. "Mother wrote that she was sending me a box." "Come, girls," called Birger at last; "Father says it is dark enough now to light the tree."
Birger Jarl makes the town of Stockholm a fortress; the warders stand with bow and arrow on the walls, reconnoitring over lake and fjord, over Brunkaberg sand-ridge.
All day and all night, and all the next day, the boat steamed across the open lakes, glided noiselessly into the quiet canals, or climbed slowly step by step up the locks. Toward night of the second day Birger suddenly announced, "This is Lake Viken, and it is the highest lake on the way between the two ends of the canal route.
From this the place was called Korsholm. The heathen Finns knew of his coming and had gathered in great numbers to defend their country against its invaders, but nothing could stay the fury of the crusaders, who were incensed with the cruelties these barbarians had committed, and drove them back in dismay wherever they met them, Birger Jarl showing the greatest skill as a leader.
"Sometime, if you will come to visit us in Stockholm, we will have you join the line and skate with us under the bridges, and up and down the waterways; and we will show you what good times we can have in the city." "So we did write a letter after all," sighed Birger, as Fru Ekman finished reading.
"I'm willing to stay all summer, if we can drive off in the daytime and see some Lapp settlements," said Birger, who had made friends with a young Laplander that morning at the Gellivare station. "But it is daytime all the time!" cried Gerda. "When should we get any sleep?"
XI, one Birger, who died in 1202, is mentioned as still alive. We have, however, a yet later notice. This language, though a little vague, can hardly refer to anything but an expedition of Waldemar to Bremen in 1208. The whole History was in that case probably finished by about 1208.
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