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Rh When the farmer himself saw the young ones, he said: "Be it as it may with this; but one thing is certain, we, on this farm, have behaved in such a manner that we are shamed before both animals and human beings." And, thereupon, he took the mother squirrel and all her young ones from the cage, and laid them in the old grandma's lap. "Go thou out to the hazel-grove with them," said he, "and let them have their freedom back again!" It was this event that was so much talked about, and which even got into the newspapers, but which the majority would not credit because they were not able to explain how anything like that could have happened.



Saturday, March twenty-sixth.

days later, another strange thing happened. A flock of wild geese came flying one mornig, and lit on a meadow down in Eastem Skåne not very far from Vittskövle manor. In the flock were thirteen wild geese, of the tisual gray variety, and one white