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Chap. XIX.
THE WELLS.
299
iron your interior by the same occasion—kill two birds
with one stone. The season commences about the
20th of June, and lasts until September. The baths are
still well frequented, though their heyday is over; and
the balls are so arranged, that, while the higher classes
waltz and polk within the salle-de-danse, the peasants
profit by the same music, and enjoy their recreation on
the green without. I can imagine this a most enjoyable
place in summer-time. We had prolonged our walk
beyond the boundary of those cut out for the visitors,
and suddenly came on to swampy ground in the glen
below. “ Don’t go there; you’ll get wet, and catch
your deaths,” exclaimed Prudence: we paid no
attention, and were rewarded; for we found the lilac-flowers
of the Primula farinosa blooming in all their glory, the
leaves and stalks of the plant fresh powdered. We
dragged up a basket-load, and, on our return home,
planted them in the white china spittoons, with a pair
of which each bedroom at the Marienlyst is provided;
and there they blossomed for many a day.
Some twenty or thirty years since Ramløsa Wells
were much frequented: then there were gaming-tables;
and Oscar, at that period Crown Prince of Sweden—
young, handsome, and gallant—visited them every
summer season. But time rolled on, and Oscar grew
old like the rest of us, married, and came no more;
then he bethought himself how wicked roulette was,
how iniquitous too was rouge-et-noir, and consequently
suppressed the tables. The men now voted Ramløsa
slow, and deserted its shady groves ; the ladies
too—particularly those of Copenhagen, who had always derived
“ such benefit from its waters,” and the society of those
Frenchmen of the north, the Swedish gentlemen—sud-
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