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Ole Bull: a memoir; with Ole Bull's 'Violin notes' and A. B. Crosby's 'Anatomy of the violinist', 1897
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1No place could have been better fitted than Valestrand to give a healthful impulse and development to the lads, who scaled the cliffs and mountains, swam the lakes, and sailed their boats on the fjords. They used to pride themselves on living out-of-doors as woodsmen, and would have liked to sleep as well as eat in the woods. Ole led his younger brothers in all their games and sports, except fishing and shooting. He always had an aversion to these pursuits, which could not yield him pleasure enough to compensate for the pain inflicted; and he never overcame this feeling.
3With all their activity it was remarkable, the brothers have since said, that they escaped whole-limbed, and sometimes with their lives. When grandmother was questioned once by a friend as to how she could rest when the boys were with her at Valestrand, she answered: "Why, my dear, if we sent nurses after each one, what would their guardian angels have to do?" So for their summer vacation they were given their freedom. The sisters were, of course, kept more at home, but they, too, had a good time in the hay-field, and joined in some of their brothers' frolics.
5The death of a baby sister made a deep impression on Ole, and he told, in one of the last years of his life, how he had stolen into the room where
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