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When it is desired to send a summons or other message over a district in Norway where the dwellings are scattered, the budstick is sent round by running messengers.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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If any one is absent, the budstick must be laid upon the "house-father's great chair, by the fire-side;" and if the house is locked, it must be fastened outside the door, so as to be seen as soon as the host returns.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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Here Frolich appeared running to ask whether those who were in the grove would not like to look forth from the ridge, and see what good the budstick had done, and how many parties were on their way from all quarters to the farm.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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Some traveller who had met the budstick had reported the proceedings below, and the news had spread to a northern seater.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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Oddo was to tell him of the danger of the bishop, and to request him to send to the spot whatever force could be mustered at Saltdalen; and moreover to issue the budstick, [Note 1] to raise the country.
Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839
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