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THREE OF THE HEALTHY, HAPPY COMMUNITY OF RURAL DALECARLIA |
YEOMAN COUPLE OF TRANSYLVANIA |
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| No province of Sweden is more full of rural charm and interest than Dalecarlia, and it represents that part of the country which has most uninterruptedly preserved old-time costumes and old-world customs. Peasant handicrafts flourish here apace, peasant lore differs but little from that prevailing in past ages, and the peasant women and girls still wear the bright-coloured local costumes | The lives of the Transylvanian peasantry are spent in an unremitting round of toil, but their love of independence keeps them faithful to the land, and they prefer tilling the earth to acting as servants in the towns |