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40
LINAA.
Chap. XXXI.
his stomach her lost treasure. Anon the waters again
become troubled, and recede quickly, fish and all, to
the basin of the lake. Somehow or other, though, the
lake never recovered Bjara’s malediction; gradually
it thickened, dried up, and the Bjarup Sø in course
of time became a Bjarup Mose. See how the curse
recoiled upon Bjara’s church. The foundation soon
gave way, the effect, some say, of the inundation; it is
now a heap of ruins, while Ballerup and Linaa both stand,
picturesque objects, though perhaps a little church
ward-enized. We are at Mollerup : let us observe the storks
—one, two, three, four nests, each with young ones ready
to fly—not quite courage yet; and here arrives the male
—what has he brought them home for breakfast in his
mouth ? a marsh frog I More nests still in Laasby: happy
village! rather too productive perhaps, for the storks
bring “ triplets” to the Banish peasants, as common an
occurrence as twins in England. In our own tongue we
have no term like “ trillinge;” we borrow triplets from
the dice-box—a very bad throw in either case; but the
storks mean to be kind, though the present be
unwelcome. Mind how you make game of the young
ones; they never forget it—are very tenacious about
their long lanky legs. As there is nothing to look at
until we come to Skovby, I may as well tell what befell
the Stubbe family—“ gammel adelige familie uddodt,”
—all because they laughed at the young storks’ legs.
You have all heard of Cadet Roussel, whose fortunes
hung on his possessing three of everything—■
“ Cadet Roussel a trois habits,
Deux jaunes, et l’autre en papier gris,”—
the last not a solid article perhaps, but it rhymes
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