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202 ’ COPENHAGEN. Chap. XIII.’
the kind. Servants engage themselves from November
1st; we consequently were compelled to remain from the
19th of October till that day living out and about at a
restaurant anyhow, till we were tired out, and our one
man and maid, whom we had brought with us, were by no
means in the most amiable of tempers. At last, however,
“ the pig did get over the stile,” and we were fairly
settled at Copenhagen.
Living is decidedly not dear here in the capital;
meat of the best quality varies from fivepence to
sixpence per lb.; poultry and game are abundant and
cheap ; and an entire stag may be purchased for
about 1Z. English money. In the way of birds, the
Danes, like the French, eat everything, and I own my
feelings received a fearful shock one morning on being
offered for sale, price sixpence, twenty little bullfinches
tied together on a cord, and, on my indignantly refusing
to purchase them, the offer was followed up by the
exhibition of a bunch of silk-tails as they here call them,
the Bohemian waxwing,* with somewhat sober plumage
and lovely little yellow tails—a bird which the English
naturalists value at fifteen shillings the skin to
purchase, though, I dare say, if I had made a speculation in
them, they would not have paid me more than sixpence.
It is a curious fact that these little birds visit
Denmark but once in seven years, and never lay their eggs
further south than Lapland.
Firing, wood, coal, and turf, are all reasonable
enough in themselves, but the servants and the stoves
combined, manage to consume an unheard-of quantity.
At thq^commencement of the season you get in a supply
* Bombacilla garrula.
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