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Updated: May 28, 2025
The posts in the fences had snow hats on, and snow-drifts lay by the roadside and on the fields. One afternoon, when the sledges were creaking outside in the cold, and the door too, whenever anybody came in, Mother Taraldsen, who cupped people and applied leeches, and tall Mother Bækken were sitting and enjoying a cup of steaming hot coffee with loaf-sugar.
So cup-and-leech-Mother Taraldsen went on, saying that the girls stood poking their heads out of every single gate the whole way up the street; she saw it so well when she came home from applying leeches of an evening. She and Anne Graves then began to review the young people more closely.
Perhaps that's turned the wrong way, but " she slowly, and with increasing expression, bent her face over her cup. Mother Bækken must always have her own interpretations, so Mother Taraldsen discreetly warded off a disturbance of the peace by striking into the very middle of the manufacturing part of the town.
Mother Taraldsen was holding forth on the subject of bad liquids and ruined times, and how every trade was going down-hill, while Mother Bækken, getting more and more full of objections, put her head on one side, and stirred up her cup.
But young blood must have movement in some way, and may I ask," here Mother Bækken laid one fore-finger upon the other "have they any way of amusing themselves, if they must not dance, and not slide, and not toboggan?" But now Mother Taraldsen grew angry. "If it's proper for respectable young girls to tear about and make a row, it must be the new fashion that Mother Bækken's preaching about.
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