The testament to five sons
Printed page 5
PDF page 13 · Calmar, 1836
Page 5, passage p005-s001
sky was filled with heavy copper-coloured clouds, from which the lightning of destruction flashed unceasingly.
himmel uppfylldes med tunga kopparfärgade moln, utur hvilka förödelsens blixtrar oupphörligt ljungade.
Page 5, passage p005-s002
In place of the town’s inhabitants, those of the abyss were now invited into our house, and these latter increased to such a multitude that my mother’s former friends were finally driven out.
I stället för stadens, inbjödos nu afgrundens invånare i vårt hus, och desse sednare ökades till den mängd, att min mors fordna vänner slutligen blefvo utträngde.
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Now the wedding confectionery had been consumed, but was replaced by bodily maltreatment—whether deserved or undeserved was never called into question; and so that we might not become nauseated by constantly identical torments, just as our stepfather had already tired of seeing us in the face, we were tied fast to chairs, and another part of the body was bared to be regaled with rattan, conveniently obtained from the merchants’ shops, since in a treeless district other requisites were rather scarce.
Nu var bröllopskonfekten förtärd, men ersattes med kroppsliga misshandlingar, förtjente eller oförtjente sattes aldrig i fråga; och på det vi ej måtte vämjas vid beständigt enahanda plågor, likasom vår stjuffar allaredan hade ledsnat vid att se oss i ansigtet, så blefvo vi fastbundna vid stolar, och en annan kroppsdel blottades för att undfägnas med rotting, som beqvämt hemtades från köpmansbodarne, då i en skoglös trakt andra requisita voro nog sällsynta.
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An excessive strength of arm in wielding this rattan, when my brother was once regaled with it, had the consequence that the Town Surgeon had to be sent for and visit the maltreated boy for several days, in order finally to get the wound healed.
En öfverflödig armstyrka att föra denna rotting, då min bror en gång dermed fägnades, hade den påföljd, att Stads-Chirurgen måste efterskickas samt flere dagar besöka den misshandlade, för att ändtligen kunna få sårnaden helad.
Page 5, passage p005-s005
We lived in a town where within the day such an occurrence became generally known and judged as it deserved, for which reason thereafter, as long as our stay re-
Wi bodde i en stad, hvarest inom dygnet en dylik händelse blef allmänt känd och bedömd såsom den förtjente, hvarföre man väl sedermera, så länge vårt vistande för-