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Chap. XVII.
FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
267
tion takes place either in the island of Amak or Møen,
the epileptic stand around the scaffold in crowds, cup
in hand, ready to quaff the red blood as it flows from
the still quivering body of the malefactor.
Alonff the coast extends for miles a beechen forest
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with walks cut out for the delectation of the visitors:
no underwood—a shady canopy overhead, under which
the exhilarating sea-air circulates. The beech are
now leafless, but the ground is carpeted with green
mosses, through which pierce the delicate flowers of the
snowy wood-sorrel with its trefoil-leaf, and the wood
anemone, its petals varying from rose to white; in
the marshy parts below we find the golden heste-hov
(horse’s-hoof *), lamba blom,^ fruers særk (our lady’s
smock J), and the fladstierne; § the pale green leaves of
the lily of the valley and the conval || have already
protruded themselves, but shiver and tremble in the
blast as though they had acted unwisely; the cowslips
(koe-driver, cow-driver, as they here call them) and the
oxlips—shame on them for their effeminacy!—tuck their
blossoms sturdily under their stalks within their coronal
of leaves, determined to bide their time and not be
caught committing any imprudence.
“Visit the Hammer-mills,” said Hans Andersen; “it
is a charming walk.” And who is a better judge of
what is picturesque than Hans Andersen ? one of
nature’s poets; none of your taught admirers of the
beautiful, blessed or rather cursed with an artistic eye,
a bore to everybody. We were not destined to arrive
there on our first attempt: we passed the glass manu-
* Tussilago farfara. f Saxifraga oppositifolia.
J Cardamine pratensis. § Stellaria, || Convallaria bifolia.
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