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Chap. XXIX.
JUTLAND PRÆSTEGAARD.
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clean; windows opening on the other side into a
flower-garden ; lots of roses, lilacs, and common flowers. Here
the "arden led into a hangin" beech wood, with walks
and seats; a sø or lake below—small, but large enough
for the enjoyment of a boat, and fish in plenty. Then
there is sure to be an orchard and vegetable garden, and
a lime-avenue leading somewhere. The Danish clergy
are poorly paid; but, farming on a considerable scale,
their poverty is not of a repulsive kind, like that of
towns: they have plenty at hand—eggs, butter, milk,
poultry, pigs in profusion, cut their own turf from the
never-absent mose for winter fuel. I inquired of our
new acquaintance how many cows he kept. “ Very few,”
he replied ; “ I have but a small farm—only twelve.”
Complaint is made that when their farms are too large
they are apt to think more of their cows than of their
parishioners. From those with whom I have become
acquainted, I should say they were a well-educated,
mild, gentlemanlike set of men: their wives good and
useful helpmates, doing their duty in their state of life,
and, like their husbands, simple-minded, and entirely
free from all pretension—the very great charm of the
Danish nation in general—at the same time void of all
mauvaise honte or awkwardness. These præstegaards
may be little soigné to our refined ideas; but I don’t feel
quite sure that the farm-house plenty which surrounds
them does not fully compensate for the absence of the
neat green entrance-gate, and the laurel-girt drive round
the well-mowed grass-plot, before the house-door of an
English parsonage.
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