The

Rattrap Crofter at
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Ramsj ironworks

key Phrases • able to do

day labour

that
bossy was
extraordinary
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went around
selling Rattraps thirty kronor in
payment
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at odd moments •
seemed incredulous
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resort to both
begging and
Petty thievery •
took down the leather
pouch
to soul
together three wrinkled ten kronor bills
keep body
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Hunger gleamed in his held the before

up
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eyes eyes
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sad and monotonous •

nodding knowingly
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plods along the road •

stuffed them back

left to his own meditation got up in good season
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fallen into a line of
thought •
to milk his cow

struck
by the idea there each went his own
upon way
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to set bait for stood before the door

people again
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Offered riches food smashed

joys shelter
and and
pane
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a
,

heat & hand

clothing exactly like the
rattrap stuck in his
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offered cheese and pork .

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got hold of the pouch

It gave him unwonted joy thrust it into his
pocket
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own

pastime felt his smartness

cherished
quite pleased with
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caught in the dangerous snare •

must turn off the road
circling around the bait
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into the woods

trudging along the road for Pt was a

big confusing forest
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sour faces •
the paths twisted back and forth
Let himself be fooled
porridge pot fire
by a bait
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on
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carved off • whole forest with its trunks and branches
, ,

mjiilis
'
thickets and fallen closed
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played its
logs
upon
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with his confidences like

generous him an
impenetrable prison
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in his
days of
prosperity darkness
already descending over the
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was

forest
 his
and increased also
gloom and
despair the brick tiled roof
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he saw out until he stood close

up to the furnace
way
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no

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he sank
hard
down on the
ground •
attracted to the
forge by the
glow of light
a
regular thumping escaped through the
sooty panes
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He raised himself •
warm themselves in front of the fire
Hammar strokes glanced only casually and
indifferently
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his
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summoned all
strength at the intruder .

staggered in the direction of the sound •

a
long beard , dirty , ragged and with a bunch
mill
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large plant ,
with smelter , rolling of
rattraps dangling on his chest
and forge •
nodded a
haughty consent
and
long lines of
heavily loaded
barges owned
by prominent ironmaster
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a
very
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slid down canal watched both

scows the
night and day
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a large inland lake

nightly rounds of inspection
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dust which sifted from big

coal down the tall ragamuffin
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charcoal crates .
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so close to the furnace that steam rose from
sat in the dark forge near the furnace his wet
rags
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.

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waiting for the
pig Tron
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hardly deigned to look at the

stranger
to be to
put anvil tore off his slouch hat
ready on the
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stir the But of course it is Nils Olof

glowing you
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mass ,

dripping with
perspiration throw him a
couple of kronor
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long shirt of wooden shoes want to undeceive him all at

a &
pair once
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a
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big bellows groaned •

God knows
things have
gone
downhill
the coed cracked with
burning
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me

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fire boy shovel led
of the
charcoal •
You should not have resigned from the regiment
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the Maw furnace •
If only had still been in the service at the
I
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a
great deal of clatter time it never would have
happened
outside roared the waterfall
along up to the manor house
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north wind
whipped the rain
sharp
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a
 he has stolen
did not the
tramp
please alarmed
either
something or else he
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from
looking quite has
escaped jail
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throwing himself voluntarily

into the lion 's must have felt confidence
rattrap peddler
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den in her

forge will come at once

sleep here in the I
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sneak
away as
inconspicuously as
possible •
Handed him with a
deep bow

The ironmaster assumed he

felt embarrassed without
granting the
astonished blacksmiths
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because of his miserable clothing much

so as a
glance
it was too bad that we didn't have
any He had evil
forebodings
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company Now I am
sitting in the
trap
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chirstmas food satisfaction of his old

help make the disappear thought with
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us

comrade he had
a little faster
regimental whom run

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It looks
though Captain von Stahle
as across
he his
preferred to stay with you tonight gets little
flesh on bones
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, a

stqernstriim .
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run around the country selling rattraps
heel
turned his It is
queer that things have gone
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on
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the sound of wheels outside downhill with him as badly as that

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carriage
of
away from
The manners will fall him
she would have better
powers persuasion tramp
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followed valet with clothes

by a the
tramp
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had stretched himself out white shirt and starched

The stranger He wore a a
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on the floor collar and whole shoes

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pig Tron under his head •

Ironmaster did not seem pleased
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his hat
pulled down over his
eyes
.
He looked at him with
puckered brow
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used to
sleeping with one
eye open
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broad daylight
dissimulate
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He
jumped up abruptly and seemed to •
no
attempt to
be quite frightened • the
spied our had come to an end
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bring you home to us • I

pleaded and begged to be allowed to

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looked at him compassionately stay in the
forge
 and
I can
put my rags again go away
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on

little
hesitating a
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struck the table with his fist
This world is
nothing but
big rattrap
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a

homelike and Christ

she
thought how
massy
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She had interceded for the

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Vagabond
he is chased
away
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he is afraid of
being arrested and cross

examined
mumbled
something in his beard
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• we have
promised Christmas cheer
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You do preach worse than a Parson
down himself
he
only sat and
helped
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slept at stretch
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one
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his share of the good Christmas fare
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blinking as
though candlelight hurt
him
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no evil would befall him
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in boundless
amazement
hung her head
dejectedly
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even more
than usual
was so
badly done
up
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of
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She
gave a little cry joy
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written in large ,
jagged characters
a bait for
poor Wanderers
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to himself
got power
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he clear

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written with
friendship and
high regard