Note
_ Some of the purely geographical matter in the Swedish original of the "Further Adventures of Nils" has been eliminated from the English version.
The author has rendered valuable assistance in cutting certain chapters and abridging others. Also, with the author‘s approval, cuts have been made where the descriptive matter was merely of local interest.
But the story itself is intact.
V.S.H.
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Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. _


Chapter 1. The Boy
_ CHAPTER I. THE BOY
THE ELF
Sunday, March twentieth.
Once there was a boy. He was--let us say--something like fourteen years old； long and loose-jointed and towheaded. He wasn‘t good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep； and after that--he liked best to make mischief.
It was a Sunday morning and the boy‘s parents were getting ready to go to church. The boy sat on the edge of the table, in his shirt sleeve

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