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-I took some of my pay in spirits.

Aaron said there will be a house change next week.

Last year the priest asked me who we call

'our lords'. I couldn't answer.

"our lords are what we call the people, who in

addition to our parents,"-

-"have fatherly authority over us, such

as clergy, teachers and landlords."

Do you know how many nobles and landlords

we have above us in this world?

The first is the King, Oskar I.

The second is County Chief.

The third is tax collector.

The fourth is sheriff Innegren,

and the fifth is the sheriffs deputy.

the sixth is the Priest,

and seventh, Aaron, our landlord.

I have to say. What a mountain of gents!

Do you know it now,

if they should ask you again?

the first is the King. . .

-And what's his name?

-Oskar the 1st.

and then we have. . .

The County Chief.

and then the tax collector after that?

-and then it's the priest.

-No.

The King, Oskar the 1st,

and then the County Chief. . .

Arvid !

-Are you going to chop wood in the middle of

the night?

-Old mother is going to die tonight.

-Put down the axe.

-I'm going to kill her!

-Have you gone insane!

-I'm going to chop her straight in the mouth !

Arvid, listen to me. . .

Don't touch that axe!

Listen to me!

Your making yourself miserable.

-You don't know what you're doing !

-I said, let go of the axe!

Arvid. . . come inside.

-Do you know what she's accusing me of?

-Yes.

It's that women that has made it all up

I have never done anything illegal with the heifer.

I believe you, Arvid. I have never believed the

things they have said about you.

Do you know what they call me?

The bull of Nybacken.

It's not so strange none of the girls

want anything to do with me.

Arvid. . . I have a secret.

You're the only one I can tell.

Can I trust you?

You have to promise not to tell anyone.

My lips are sealed.

Even if they chop my head off, my lips are sealed.

-I'm going to run away.

-Run away?

In the autumn, when they drive the timber to

Karlshamn, I'm taking the boat to America.

-Will you come with me, Arvid?

-Yes.

Look at this.

"Description of the United States

of America,"-

-"with information and advice for emigrants."

"In America things aren't split into nobility

and commoners as they are here."

"and you don't even have to say 'Sir' to the President,

if you don't want to."

"The finest rice comes from

Carolina in North-America."

"It's forbidden to eat salted herring."

"in America no one works more

than 12 hours in a day."

"many of the slaves have better houses,

food and circumstances than peasants in Europe"

"they keep their own chickens ands pigs. They can

grow what they want and sell their excess."

-Then I will sell myself as a slave.

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