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30
SILKEBORG.
Chap. XXX.
of five or six varieties, large dish of wild strawberries,
and plenty of rich cream. The apartment too has
been swept and garnished, and a little salon arranged
for us; sofas and chairs dragged in, pictures hung on
the walls, bowpots too of pinks and roses. The
landlady hopes we are comfortable ; she has done her best;
of course we are pleased. I don’t know what Jutland
may be some ten years hence, when intersected by
railroads and civilization; at present, if you meet with
aught but civility and attention, it is your own fault.
In the evening we again drove out, and a charming drive
it was; but blue lakes, green woods, and brovm heather,
though beautiful in themselves, sound tiresome on paper,
and you have already had a dose of them.
June —Little Lina, the Blenheim spaniel, was
wagging her tail, imploring of Jacques, the man-servant,
to put her up into the carriage before everybody,
dreadfully afraid she might be forgotten among those big
hoop petticoats, indispensable necessaries for ladies
travelling in Jutland. We were all ready to start, and seated,
when a black cloud appears overshadowing the whole
heaven, but the weather cannot be worse than it was
the day of our arrival. We may come in for a rainbow
among the hills; no use waiting, so we crossed the
bridge over the Guden Aa: the river is covered with
water-lilies, and teems with trout, pike, and crayfish.
The eels, which they served us en aspic this morning
for breakfast, came from the lake hard by, where a
small striped skipper-house, now turned into a
beerhouse, with tea-garden, skittles, and poppinjay, was
once the residence of the keeper who superintended
the taking and sale of the eels, in earlier days a royal
monopoly.
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