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Again in Sweden; Sketches and Reminiscenes From the Land of Our Forefathers During the Year of the Great Exposition and the King's Jubilee, 1897
Carl Aaron Swensson
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-24.
ISBN 9781150794674
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Swedish Book Company Subjects: Sweden History / Europe / Scandinavia Travel / Europe / Scandinavia Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AGAIN IN SWEDEN. CHAPTER I. Off For Sweden. The very thought is an inspiration. It makes my heart bound with the vigor of youth. Sleep becomes a dream again, and the waking hours a happy trance. But as yet I am only in little, Swedish Lindsborg, in far away Kansas. Kansas is a revelation. So good and so bad, all at once. An engine of enthusiasm, unbounded hopes and possibilities, rushing on, madly almost at times, with prophetic public opinion at the throttle, past successes shoveling in the coal, and the brakemen all asleep in neighboring states; a dilapidated cottonwood tree on the high, stormswept hills of the Smoky, with falling leaves, decaying trunk, and a faraway, sad and busted look in general. One day distancing all competitors with the ease of a fully developed natural and acquired superiority, another the conscious and deserving object of the jeers of everybody, yes, even of the smiling, noddling, un-killable sunflower by the wayside. Such is Kansas. The admiration of her friends, belied by her own citizens; beloved of God, feared by the Devil; and withal the most interesting child of the whole family. From a wilderness she becomes the pleasant and happy home of a million and a half of intelligent, law-abiding citizens in less than one generation. She plants over 9, 000 school-houses, nearly 3, 000 churches and many far-famed colleges and universities, -- and no saloons, -- in her charming valleys and upon her fertile prairies, before her first born white boy has
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Again in Sweden; Sketches and Reminiscenes From the Land of Our Forefathers During the Year of the Great Exposition and the King's Jubilee, 1897
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