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• A watchman in Mora, Dalecarlia (Dalarna), Sweden.
• From Harper's new monthly magazine. Volume 67, Issue 401, October 1883
• Quote:

Harper's new monthly magazine. Volume 67, Issue 401, October 1883, p. 682

In Mora the summer visitor has not only to court sleep in the bright sunlight, but an unearthly blast from the horn of the night-watchman disturbs the stranger at every half-hour from ten o’clock until six. Four of us in the hotel arranged a scheme to forcibly corral the disturber of the peace, and either spoil his horn or persuade him to substitute for it cats or some other mild nocturnal noise. So we rallied out at midnight and watched for him. We had not the assistance and cover of darkness so we decided to ambush the enemy, and consequently took our posts behind the little shanties which serve for booths in fair - time. As he drew near tooting the instrument of torture, we saw as fine a specimen of a man as could be imagined, tall, broad - shouldered, muscular, and straight as a grenadier. He wore a white woollen, full - skirted coat, and small-clothes like the peasants of the time of Louis XIV. In his right hand he carried the torture bugle, and in his left he had a huge naked sword at least four feet long. We had planned to move out at his approach, and imagined an easy victory over such a specimen of watchman as we had hitherto seen. I scarcely need add that we suffered him to distend his lungs and give his ear-splitting blasts quite uninterruptedly. Mora and Orsa boast of the size and vigor of their men. We can now forgive them this boast.

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