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...postscript to his story on Sweden's "Well-Stocked Cellar" in our Dec. 31 issue, TIME Senior Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald sent a letter describing a reindeer sleigh ride in the wilds of Lapland. I thought you would be interested in reading part of it, because it is indicative of the far corners to which some of our editors penetrate when they take trips away from home...
...undertook the ride not purely in the spirit of adventure," Grunwald wrote with lavish understatement, "but because it offered the only means of transportation to a reindeer roundup that I wanted very much to see. For the first few minutes, a friendly Lapp sat beside me on the precarious vehicle, not improved in design since the stone age, and all was well. But then the caravan stopped for an instant, the Lapp got up, handed me the crude reins, grinned encouragingly, and was gone. There I crouched, staring at the jiggling rump of the reindeer, going like crazy across...
...roundup itself took place in an enclosure in the midst of a thick forest. The reindeer run around in frightened herds and the Lapps walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos . . . The most important thing at the roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp...
When of a sudden there came With clash and with clatter, A reindeer and sleigh (But no second class matter...
...stuck up the chimney," said the Reindeer...