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From: Arne Nielsen <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Severin Weiersøe - Diary entry 95
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:50:33 +0200
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The Madam is never better with someone than with sick people->
The Madam is never better to anyone than to sick people

Arne



18-10-2011 21:35, Paul Pedersen wrote:
> Øgelstrup den 18de Marts 1832.
>
> Madammen er aldrig bedre ved Nogen end ved syge Folk, naar Sygdommen ikke
> skal vare for længe. Koldfeberen har mindet mig, og jeg har hver Dag i 8te
> Dage faaet Kaffe og Thevand; men skal det vare laengere, saa begynder hun at
> snakke om at det er Dovenskab; men jeg haaber ogsaa snart at komme op.
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> Øgelstrup, March 18, 1832
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> The Madam is never better with someone than with sick people when the
> illness does not last too long. The cold fever has remembered me and I have
> each day for 8 days received coffee and tea; but if it lasts longer, then
> she starts to say that it is laziness; but I really hope to get up soon.
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> Den største Fornøielse, jeg har haft længe, var forleden Nat. Jeg veddede
> med vores Avlskarl om 1 Mark, at han ikke kunde fortælle Historier en heel
> Nat, uden at gjentage nogle af de, han fortalte i Vinter, da vi snoede Simer
> [1] - for jeg gjør altid mit Aftensarbeide lige med een af Karlene - Han
> stod sig rigtig nok og fortalte nogle og 60, som jeg aldrig havde hørt før.
> Jeg kan huske 4re der begyndte saaledes: »Engang var der en Mand og en Kone,
> der havde kun een Datter.« Havde jeg ikke haft saameget i mit Hoved, og var
> bleven søvnig tilsidst, kunde jeg gjerne have husket og fortalt dem alle
> sammen.
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> The greatest pleasure I have had for a long time was last night. I bet with
> our head farmhand about 1 Mark that he could not tell stories a whole night
> without repeating some of those he told last winter when we braided ropes -
> because I always do my evening’s work together with one of the farmhands -
> he held his own true enough and told 60 odd that I had never heard before.
> I can remember 4 that began “Once upon a time there was a man and a wife who
> had only one daughter.” Had I not had so much in my head and become sleepy
> at last, I might well have remembered and told all of them.
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> Corrections, comments and questions are welcome.
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> Paul& Harold Pedersen
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> Toronto, Canada
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