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Chap. XXXI.
THE CHÅTEAU.
45
country: how wise the Danes are to stick to it! when
completed it will be one of the finest residences of its
style in Europe. And Frederiksborg may bless its
stars that the future Friisenborg is not situated in the
island of Zealand. In the ornamental poultry yard there
were several hens sitting on their eggs. The nest is that
to be met with in all the peasants’ houses—a truss of
straw tightly bound towards the end, and opened
funnel-shaped towards the top; the straw being neatly
turned in at the opening and fastened down. They are
placed between a wooden bar and the wall-side, and
very clean and tidy they looked. The custom of “
egghatching ”—there is a finer term—in ovens appears to
have been practised in Denmark in Christian IV.’s time.
He writes word to the hen-woman—“When the chickens
come out of the eggs which are in the ovens, let the
girl have some swan and some turkey eggs.” *
We are now in the land of “ beeves,” large numbers of
which are here fattened for exportation for the London
market. Molesworth, in speaking of Jutland, says,—
“ This is the best country the King of Denmark has;
but neglected on account of its distance from
Copenhagen. Quantities of beeves and oxen are exported
to Holland annually, to fatten in the rich pastures of
that country.”
Towards sunset we took leave of our kind hosts, and
after a three hours’ drive are again installed in our old
quarters of last year, in the hot, dusty, bad-smelling
city of Aarhuus.
♦ Dated, Frederiksborg, 26th June, 1G30.
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