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Chap. IV.
THE CASTLE.
x6i
Frederic IV. first met at a masquerade the fair Anna
Sophia Reventlow; but the story will be better related
at Clausholm. We crept down into the dark, noisome
prison in the vaults below, where Albert, King of
Sweden, paid the penalty of his vulgar, low abuse of
the great Queen Margaret by an imprisonment of many
years. Queen Breechless, or Monk Maid, he called
his cousin Margaret, in addition to sending her a
whetstone to sharpen her scissors and needles. Well!
he had time enough during his long incarceration in
this foul dungeon to invent new nicknames, or may be
to repent those he had already fabricated. Pleasant
times were those to live in! and how nature sustained
itself under such treatment, we luxurious children of
the present day can ill understand.
Early in the last century a pearl-fishery was
established at Kolding, under the auspices of the mayor.
A Greenlander, who professed himself an adept at
fishing up pearls “ in his own country! ” (pearls in
Greenland!), was engaged. He dived with great
success, but too much, soon sickened, pined, and died, and
since that time the oysters of the fiorde have been
allowed to rest in peace and quietude.
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