On extra special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, Midsummer, Syttende Mai (May 17, Norway’s Constitution Day anniversary), and Christmas, cardamom bread, fancy marzipan-filled cookies, butter cakes, kransekakes (pyramid-type cakes constructed from almond rings), and imported lingonberries would be served.

Tom was so stunned that he had not even presence of mind enough to say Who cares, Miss Smarty? until the right time to say it had gone by. So he said nothing. But he was in a fine rage, nevertheless. He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.

Her comely nose, with uniformal grace, Like purest white, stands in the middle place}}

It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess.