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This brought the little family face to face with the realities of life, and we soon after find the father occupying a position as inspector on the Göta Canal, a project which was just then occupying serious attention after having been neglected for nearly one hundred years, and nearly three hundred years after it was first proposed in 1526.
South of Stockholm, between the lakes of Wettern and Wenern, and along the banks of the Gota River, farming is carried to considerable perfection; but with this exception, and some small and sheltered valleys to the north, in which the peasants manage with great care and labor to raise a sufficient supply of grain and potatoes for domestic consumption, but little is produced for exportation.
He brought out some of the mechanical drawings he had worked over, and had machinery made after them, and whenever his inventions were tried they met with success. For several years John commanded his six hundred men at the Göta Canal, and then he decided to enter the army. He had grown tall, and was noted for his great strength and skill in feats of arms.
"You gonna play checkers or am I gonna gota Chuck's?" Chuck was a neighbor boy from the trailer park who recently moved into a house three blocks away. At first she got up from her seat in a huff of anger to prune such insolence but she couldn't help feeling amused by it so she sat back down on her chair at the desk and smiled at the door.
"And I must call upon one of the trolls when we get to Trollhättan," said Gerda, shaking her head with an air of importance. "I shall walk up the locks," said Birger. "You mean that you will walk down the locks," Erik corrected him. "After this the boat will go downstairs until we reach the Göta River."
"I want my wife," exclaimed the Jew, backing down the stairs. "What's she mean by running away from me and going into your room?" "Look out, he's got a knife!" cried Maria through the crack of the door. "Ah, there you are. Come outa that, and come back home," exclaimed Zerkow. "Get outa here yourself," cried Marcus, advancing on him angrily. "Get outa here." "Maria's gota come too."
Say, I taut I'd drop dead. But deh boss, he comes in after an' he says, 'Pete, yehs done jes' right! Yeh've gota keep order an' it's all right. See? 'It's all right, he says. Dat's what he said." The two held a technical discussion. "Dat bloke was a dandy," said Pete, in conclusion, "but he hadn' oughta made no trouble.
"I shall be home in just seven days," said Gerda, "and if you will all be here on the quay to welcome me, I will tell you the whole story of the wonderful Göta Canal, and our sight-seeing in Göteborg." "Your friends will have to meet you at the railroad station," her father told her. "We shall come back by train. It is much the quickest way."
"Well, Lord knows I don't wanta bother anybody," said the other. There was a little accent of despair in his voice as he replied, "Lord knows I 've gota 'nough m' own t' tend to." The youth, who had been holding a bitter debate with himself and casting glances of hatred and contempt at the tattered man, here spoke in a hard voice. "Good-by," he said.
g, when followed by e, i, y, ä, ö, is also like y. Example, Göta is pronounced Yöta. When g is followed by a, o, u, or å, it is hard, as in go. k is hard when it precedes a, o, u, or å. Example, Kaksi, Kolmi, etc. ä is pronounced like ä in fare. Example, Färs. There is no sound in the English language which corresponds to the Swedish ö. It is like the French eu in jeu.
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