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Chap. XIX.
HELSINGBORG.
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CHAPTER XIX.
Expedition to Sweden — Helsingborg — Marriage of King Erik and
Ingeborg — Mineral waters of Ramløsa — Valdemar Atterdag and his
castle of Gurre — His impious speech — Queen Philippa reforms the
coinage — Destruction of the storks.
HELSINGBORG.
May IQth.—The storks were right: the wind veered
round to the south, a refreshing shower of rain has laid
the dust, the air is soft and balmy, and vegetation
imperceptibly bursts forth in all the glory of a
northern summer. To-day is a birthday in the family,
so we celebrate it by an expedition to Sweden. If
birthdays are to be celebrated, let them be, like John
Gilpin’s, out somewhere, not at home—Bell at
Edmonton better than nowhere; so we started at twelve in the
steamer, and were in twenty-five minutes in Helsingborg.
I can’t say much for the town —a most deserted,
deplorable affair altogether: most of the houses have been lately
rebuilt and the streets widened ; they only look more
unsociable in consequence. We adjourned to the inn—you
might have put two Danish hostels of the same calibre
inside. It reminded me more of France—all straggling
and disconnected: a large salon, at the end of which were
placed two beds not three feet long. “ Why, it’s
impossible anybody can sleep in such atrocities! ” we
exclaimed. On examination, we discovered they were
made to draw out; so they may have the advantage
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