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HIRSCHHOLM.
Chap. XXII.
shrimps. The manor gardens are open to visitors: rich
in ornamental flowering shrubs, lake and platebandes.
In the wall lay imbedded some stones engraved with
the arms of the ancient possessors through two
generations. On the whole, Rostgaard manor and a pretty
widow of nineteen—the Swedish officers could not have
done better.
HIRSCHHOLM.
Saturday, May ^th.—I could not leave Elsinore
without visiting the site where once stood Hirschholm, the
most splendid of Madalena’s palatial creations; so we
took the steamer, and in one hour were landed at the
village of Kongsted; from whence we pass through a
forest—a very wedding nosegay of white flowers;
Skovstierne or forest star,* and bifolia, the most delicate
and youngest of the conval tribe, we found blooming for
the first time. We stop to gather them by the way; a
half-hour’s walk it should have been to the palace, but
somehow or other time slips on unconsciously. Lilies
abounded not, for a girls’ school had picnicked that
day in the forest, and we saw them bright and happy
looking, in their round hats, with their mistress, seated
on the turf, tying up their nosegays. We now came to
an obelisk, decorated with cornucopias tumbling inside
out, very symbolical—erected in 1761,-f to celebrate
* Trientalis Europæa.
f Molesworth, speaking of the Danish peasantry, says: “ They
are absolute slaves in Zealand, as in Barbadoes, with this difference,
that they are not well cared for, and suffer greatly from the
quantity of soldiers who are billeted upon them — a nuisance of
which our English yeomen complained in olden times, when they
were domineered over by the Danish troops; and the name of
‘ Lazy Lordane ’ became in after times a byword. Previous to the
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