"How true this is, one can see by the number of islands and points that
lie along the coast of Blekinge, and which are nothing in the world but
the big stones that the giant threw.
"One can also tell because the salmon always go up in the Blekinge
streams and work their way up through rapids and still water, all the
way to Smaland.
"That giant is worthy of great thanks and much honour from the Blekinge
people; for salmon in the streams, and stone-cutting on the island--that
means work which gives food to many of them even to this day."
BY RONNEBY RIVER
_Friday, April first_.
Neither the wild geese nor Smirre Fox had believed that they should ever
run across each other after they had left Skane. But now it turned out
so that the wild geese happened to take the route over Blekinge and
thither Smirre Fox had also gone.
So far he had kept himself in the northern parts of the province; and
since he had not as yet seen any manor parks, or hunting grounds filled
with game and dainty young deer, he was more disgruntled than he could
say.
One afternoon, when Smirre tramped around in the desolate forest
district of Mellanbygden, not far from Ronneby River, he saw a flock of
wild geese fly through the air. Instantly he observed that one of the
geese was white and then he knew, of course, with whom he had to deal.
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