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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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And we also reached the town and the
church, and thither they all thronged: they said
there were above five thousand persons assembled
there. The church-service began at five o’clock.
The pulpit and organ were ornamented with
flowering lilacs; children sat with lilac-flowers and
branches of birch; the little ones had each a
piece of oat-cake, which they enjoyed. There
was the sacrament for the young persons who
had been confirmed; there was organ-playing
and psalm-singing; but there was a terrible
screaming of children, and the sound of heavy
footsteps; the clumsy, iron-shod Dal shoes
tramped loudly upon the stone floor. All the
church pews, the gallery pews, and the centre
aisle were quite filled with people. In the
side aisle one saw various groups – playing
children, and pious old folks: by the sacristy
there sat a young mother giving suck to her
child – she was a living image of the Madonna
herself.

The first impression of the whole was
striking, but only the first – there was too much

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