Karl E. Mård in Annerberget is still alive. …

Karl E. Mård in Annerberget is still alive. He himself told me the following. One spring night, he was out to shoot wood grouse at the lek (mating display ground). He arrived too early at the lek site, so he leaned against a pine tree and rested until the wood grouse would arrive. He fell asleep there but woke up because he thought someone called out: "Karl Erik! Get up and go home, because you won't get anything." He got up and scurried around all the bushes and trees to find out who had called, but he saw no one. There were plenty of wood grouse that night, but it was utterly impossible for him to get within shooting range. When he realized that he wouldn't be able to shoot anything, he set off for home. Then he happened to look back. – Just a short distance behind him walked a deceased neighbor of his, named Håkan. Mård tried to get away from the dead man, but he didn't succeed. No matter how hard he tried, the distance between them remained just as short. "But just as the sun rose over the treetops, I was freed from that devil," said Karl Erik, "but then I sat down and lit my pipe." – He is a decent and reliable fellow in every way, Karl Erik.