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'Round the yule-log - H. L. Broekstad
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Title: 'Round the yule-log: Christmas in Norway
Author: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen
Translator: H. L. Broekstad
Release Date: April 15, 2010 [EBook #31993]
Language: English
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'Round the Yule-Log
Christmas in Norway
BY
P. CHR. ASBJÖRNSEN
TRANSLATED BY H. L. BRŒKSTAD.
BOSTON DANA ESTES AND CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1895,
By Estes and Lauriat
All rights reserved
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
'ROUND THE YULE-LOG.
The wind was whistling through the old lime and maple trees opposite my windows, the snow was sweeping down the street, and the sky was black as a December sky can possibly be here in Christiania. I was in just as black a mood. It was Christmas Eve,—the first I was to spend away from the cosey fireside of my home. I had lately received my officer's commission, and had hoped that I should have gladdened my aged parents with my presence during the holidays, and had also hoped that I should be able to show myself in all my glory and splendour to the ladies of our parish. But a fever had brought me to the hospital, which I had left only a week before, and now I found myself in the much-extolled state of convalescence. I had written home for a horse and sledge and my father's fur coat, but my letter could scarcely reach our valley before the day after Christmas, and the horse could not be in town before New Year's Eve.
My comrades had all left town, and I knew no family with whom I could make myself at home during the holidays. The two old maids