10 walking along with two or three pails on her back, two or three dangling on her arms, and at the same time knitting a stocking, many thousand pairs of which are annually exported. The bread they use is chiefly black or brown rye, c r barley bread (the rye is imported from Denmark), barley being the only grain raised ; but the summer is so short that it has not time to ripen. The ears are plucked by the hand and dried in a kiln. Simple water mills are common, being erected over numerous falls in the rivulets near most of the hamlets ; but, in one house we entered, it was being ground at home. The mill consisted of two stones resting on a table ; in a hole near the edge of the upper one was fixed a handle by means of which the stone was turned round by the right hand, while the left was employed in suppling a hole in the centre with corn. The meal which fell from the mill was every now and then scraped together and carried away, but as there were no furrows cut in the stones the progress was very slow and the meal exceeding fine. As we looked upon this and other primitive customs, carried out by these quaintly-dressed people, in their antique-looking houses, we felt as if the world had gone back a thousand years. We had just arrived from a country whose watchword is “Forward,” and which is ever struggling and slaving in the race for perfect civilization, whilst here we were amongst a people living quite apart from the noise and bustle of the great world, content, and peacefully seek- ing only to obey the signal, “ As you were.” # * ► > f j

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