After Waiting Some
Time, For There Is An Insensibility In The Very Movements Of These
People That Would Weary More Than Ordinary Patience, He Brought With
Him A Man Who, Assisting Them To Row, We Landed At Stromstad A
Little After One In The Morning.
It was too late to send off a boy, but I did not go to bed before I
had made the arrangements necessary to enable me to set out as early
as possible.
The sun rose with splendour. My mind was too active to allow me to
loiter long in bed, though the horses did not arrive till between
seven and eight. However, as I wished to let the boy, who went
forward to order the horses, get considerably the start of me, I
bridled in my impatience.
This precaution was unavailing, for after the three first posts I
had to wait two hours, whilst the people at the post-house went,
fair and softly, to the farm, to bid them bring up the horses which
were carrying in the first-fruits of the harvest. I discovered here
that these sluggish peasants had their share of cunning. Though
they had made me pay for a horse, the boy had gone on foot, and only
arrived half an hour before me. This disconcerted the whole
arrangement of the day; and being detained again three hours, I
reluctantly determined to sleep at Quistram, two posts short of
Uddervalla, where I had hoped to have arrived that night.
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