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Chap. XVIII.
KRONBORG.
277
ing of swine, or loose dogs being allowed to run about
the streets of the city.
The walks in the neighbourhood of Elsinore are
charming, particularly that along the Strandvei, by the shore
of the Sound—a succession of country houses and fishing
villages, and well-kept gardens bright with flowers:
they have a well-to-do prosperous air, as everything has
in Denmark. An hour’s walk brings you to a maisonette
called Dahlsborg, beyond which you turn to enter the
forest of Egebæksvang, a favourite summer drive of the
Elsinorians.
KRONBORG.
A ten minutes’ walk, avoiding all dusty roads, across
the common or waste land wjiich runs down to the
seashore—in England it would have been the paradise of
geese, cricketers, and donkeys, but here it is deserted,
except by the sharpshooters, who keep up a cross-fire,
practising at their targets from eight o’clock till six of an
evening—brings us to the castle of Kronborg.
The road lies between two dirty stagnant ponds,
dignified by the appellation of Holger Dansk’s Spectacles:
if they fitted his face, he must have had one eye
considerably larger than the other. Instead of snoring
away his time within the dungeons of Kronborg—his
beard growing into the marble table—he had far better
employ his leisure moments in cleaning out and
sweetening his “ brillebut he only appears, they say, when
Mr. Sørensen (the Danish John Bull or Brother
Jonathan) really requires his services. Effectual drainage
and sanitary reforms are sadly behindhand, and looked
upon as new-fangled vagaries by the inhabitants of the
island of Zealand.
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