WITH EXCURSIONS IN NORWAY AND DENMARK. BY SELINA BUNBURY. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. LIFE IN SWEDEN. CHAPTER I. THE busy month of October has come; all seems changing in Stockholm life, and indeed all is changing, I believe, in Swedish life throughout this land. The bustle here almost bewilders me. The preparations for winter might lead one to imagine the town was in danger of a siege. Blockaded it certainly will be, but only by ice and snow. What an endless roll and racket of carts and carriages beneath my windows! They unfortunately overlook the narrow thoroughfare to the small vessels that carry wood and provisions from the interior to the capital. And now all imports VOL. II. 1013102 B SEP 3 42 |