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58
CHRISTIANSFELD!.
Chap. IV.
at dinner when we called, and, though we offered to wait
until he had concluded his meal, he insisted on
accompanying us instanter. We first visited the boys’ school,
and were next conducted to the dining-room, hung
round with their sketches and drawings framed and
glazed, and connected with the kitchen by a guichet,
through which most savoury perfumes were ascending.
That the Moravians are not anchorites we already knew,
and, from what I saw of the dinner preparing for the
children, no anxiety need be expressed as to their
welldoing in that line. In the first-class room several boys
were engaged in a drawing lesson: they rose as we
entered, and bowed politely, and were severally pointed
out to us by the professor as Jutlanders, Norwegians,
Swedes, Dutchmen, and lastly, a large-eyed,
hooknosed Greenlander, son of a missionary, an intelligent
little fellow of twelve years of age. We visited the
museum, containing herbariums, the produce of the
country, a collection of celts dug up in the
neighbourhood, and ethnographic objects, presents from pupils
long since missionaries far away in the South Seas and
Africa. The terms for education, including washing,
are 20Z. per annum, for which sum the pupils are
instructed in French, Danish, German, and the girls in
music, embroidery, useful household duties, habits of
order and cleanliness—a sine-qua-non of the
Moravian system. Here, too, they enjoy the advantage of
a fine open country, and sea-bathing in the summer
season.
On leaving the town we passed a private carriage
drawn by a pair of fine and high-stepping dun-coloured
horses, with black tails and manes—true North Jutland
breed. High-stepping carriage-horses are now scarce,
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