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"Does it look like this in foreign lands?" asked the goslings. "It looks exactly like this wherever there are forest-clad ridges," replied Akka, "only one doesn't see many of them. Wait! You shall see how it looks in general." Akka led the geese farther south to the great Skåne plain.
"Well then, let it be as you wish," said Akka. "Thanks!" said the boy, and he felt so happy that he had to cry for very joy just as he had cried before from sorrow. In south-eastern Skåne not far from the sea there is an old castle called Glimminge. It is a big and substantial stone house; and can be seen over the plain for miles around.
Much of his journey was made by canal-boat, and I find not less than six painful attempts to enumerate and describe his fellow-passengers. The entries are of this kind: 24. Pastor of village in Skane. Usual black coat and soft black hat. Commercial traveller from Stockholm going to Trollhättan. Black cloak, brown hat. Man in long black cloak, broad-leafed hat, very old-fashioned.
It is not especially pretty up there. It looks a good deal like all the other upland places in Skåne. He who walks along the path which runs across the middle of the mountain, can't help feeling a little disappointed.
The wedge was perfect, the speed good, and the wing strokes strong and certain. The boy felt such a yearning for his departing comrades that he almost wished he were Thumbietot again and could travel over land and sea with a flock of wild geese. The final e is sounded in Skåne, Sirle, Gripe, etc. The å in Skåne and Småland is pronounced like o in ore. j is like the English y.
It wasn't long before he was through with it, and soon he asked if Saint Peter had finished, and would come and look at his work. 'I had mine ready long ago, said Saint Peter; and from the sound of his voice it could be heard how pleased he was with what he had accomplished. "When Saint Peter saw Skåne, he had to acknowledge that there was nothing but good to be said of that land.
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