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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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master of the house was away, and his daughters,
who speak English very well, could not let me
have any.

I therefore return, refer to the day-book, and
finding that the full contract number of horses
has already been sent out from the station,
submit to the extortion of double fare, and accept the
one horse and a wretched ar^beitkjaerre, i. e. the
lower frame of a stolkjaerre (see page 312), with a
tray laid upon it instead of the perched chair. On

this I manage to pile the luggage, and by means
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of a very imperfect supply of cordage to hold it
there in a condition of unstable equilibrium.

All this occupied a considerable length of time ;
but finally I started, with a boy perched on the top
of the luggage, and myself holding on to the tail
of the contrivance, and running behind as naughty
little boys run behind four-wheelers in England
when the driver cannot see them. This was
rendered necessary by the instability of the smaller
items of luggage, which I had to pick up and
replace as they fell down on the road.

It was half-past eleven when I reached
Lille-strand; the ladies had already arrived, and were
just finishing their late dinner. They had done
a fair amount of walking before starting“ on this

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moonlight stage of eight miles, on an unknown

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