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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIII.
CHAPTER XIII.
How we lived in Copenhagen — Flytte-dag — The poulterer’s shop —
Domestic economy — The furriers’ shops : eider-down — Vieux
Da-nois porcelain—Jewellery of the peasants of Amak — Danish love
of locomotion.
HOW -WE LIVED IN COPENHAGEN.
January, 1859.—My choice of Copenhagen as a winter
residence arose chiefly from its geographical position ; it
appeared a convenient pied à terre for one anxious in
the ensuing spring to visit Jutland and the islands of
the Belt, with a prospect of Sweden and Norway in the
distant horizon of events. Stockholm is unapproachable
after the winter sets in, so, without further debate, we
made up our minds on the subject. I had always
imagined that strangers visited and wintered at
Copenhagen as they do in Frankfort, Dresden, and other
European capitals; great, therefore, was our surprise
when informed that such an event had never yet
occurred within the memory of man. The corps
diplomatique looked upon us as demented, while the Danes
themselves were all wonder and amazement at the
extravagance of our idea. On our arrival we descended
at the Hotel Royal, and there we remained comfortably
housed for the space of five weeks, and on most
reasonable terms. My old friend Madam (I forget her name),
who kept the hotel some twenty years since, had lately
been gathered to her fathers, rather an advantage
than otherwise, for in an inn new proprietors infuse
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