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"Then we got Schonen, Halland, Blekinge, and Bohuslaen." "The deuce you did! Who won them?" "Charles X." "Well, and then?" "Nothing else." "Is that all?" Somebody knocked on the table. "Erich the saint wishes to speak," said Gustav Wasa. "My name is Erich Jedvardson, and I never was a saint. May I be allowed to ask Swede what became of my Finland?"
The trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital partly subscribed and partly collected a thousand dollars which they presented to Doctor Morton in a handsome silver casket. The King of Sweden sent him the Cross of the Order of Wasa; and he also received the Cross of the Order of St. Vladimir from the Tsar of Russia. He was only twenty-seven years of age at this time.
That they should have squandered the old country in drink and pledge to the foreigner! It's too bad if it's true." "Click" went the turbine; and the lift with soldier shot upwards to the "Fort." And there stood, in the sunset, and the country looked just as it had looked when the chimes in the belfry Haesjoer chimed, and Gustav Wasa entered Stockholm, surrounded by his generals.
I explained that I had tried very hard to be fair to Napoleon, but that in my estimation he was greatly inferior to such men as George Washington, Gustavus Wasa, Augustus, Hammurabi or Lincoln, and a score of others all of whom were obliged to content themselves with a few paragraphs, from sheer lack of space.
Further, a number of new lines were considered necessary from a strategic point of view, one connecting Petersburg with Wasa via Hiitola, Nyslott and Iyväskylä. Barracks were built or ordered in Fredrikshamn, Kouvala, Lahtis and other Finnish towns, or railway centres.
In 1882 headmen engage for the Oil Rivers at 1l., and 'boys' for 10s. to 12s. For the gold-mines of Wásá they have learned to demand 1s. 3d. per diem, and at the cheapest 1l. a month, the headmen receiving double. The Kru-market does not supply more than 4,000 hands, and yet it is already becoming 'tight. In a few years demand will be excessive.
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