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The child was born in a peasant's house east of the Klar river. The child's mother had come seeking employment one day in early June.
She had been unfortunate, she had said to the master and mistress, and her mother had been so hard to her that she had had to run away from home. She called herself Elizabeth Karlsdotter; but she would not say from whence she came, for then perhaps they would tell her parents that she was there, and if they should find her, she would be tortured to death, she knew it. She asked for no pay, only food and a roof over her head. She could work, weave or spin, and take care of the cows -- whatever they wanted. If they wished, she could also pay for herself.