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36
SILKEBORG.
’ Chap. XXX.
may be; but the mice know nothing about that, and
stick to their old customs.
Ducks and wild geese abound on the lakes; plovers
and black game on the moors. You can sail, if you
like, in a little boat on the Guden Aa from Silkeborg
downwards, threading in your course the waters I have
here enumerated, sleeping at the roadside inn of Rye.
You can fish, you can shoot—only do not get bogged,
like the Smaa Konge: you can draw, you can botanize,
living cheaply and well at the “ Daniaand, if you
have time to spare, while away many a pleasant day
in the midst of the varying scenery of Himmelbjerg
and the lake-bound city of Silkeborg.
We did not leave Silkeborg without visiting the
“ Fabrik,” in which I was agreeably surprised. No
rampageous machinery tearing itself to pieces, but quiet
sedate cylinders, rolling noiselessly along in company
with running water. We were first introduced to the
rags, specimens of which hung suspended, like clothiers’
samples to a card, twenty-five varieties, mostly of very
coarse material; and here for the first time I learned
how the finest writing-paper used for billets-doux is made
from coarse home-spun worn-out labourers’ shirts and
dishclouts; then came the old sails—sails that have
borne a gallant craft o’er wave and ocean, in process of
time become transformed into that thin satin high-glazed
tissue, oftenest pink or yellow, used by smart
shopkeepers for lining handkerchief-boxes, and sometimes,
though I pity those who use it, into “old-fashioned
foreign post.” Coarse toile d’emballage, as the French
term it, such as encases bales of cotton, and that used
by gardeners for basket-covering, again finds favour in
the packing line in the form of coarse brown paper.
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