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48
KALØ.
Chap. XXXII.
devourer of my herrings!” So he summoned the whole
village round, and they consulted on the death the fat
eel should die. “ Burn him alive,” said one. “ Collar
him,” said another, “ and I’ll eat him afterwards.”
“ Hang him,” advised a third. “ No,” interrupted an
old man, “ he’ll slip through the rope. I myself was
once nearly lost at sea, and I know from experience
there is no death so cruel as drowning.”
So the device of the old man met with general
applause, and he was invited to accompany his lord in
a boat out at sea [to drown the eel, who, when he was
cast into the water, wriggled, twirled, and twisted for
joy.
“ See I” exclaimed the old man to the lord of Mois,
“ see how the eel writhes—what a hard death he is
dyingI”
A little higher up the coast lies the Castle of
Kats-holm, concerning the foundation of which there hangs
a tale much like that of our own Dick Whittington. A
bad unjust man died, and left his property between his
three sons; but the youngest, who was an honest lad,
when he had received his share, said to himself, “ What
has come with sin must go away with care:” so he
determined to put the money to the water ordeal, and
cast it into the lake, knowing that what was unjustly
got would sink and the rest float. He did so, and one
farthing only floated; with this farthing he purchased
a cat, not far from kittening time, and went by ship to
a foreign land where rats and mice abounded and cats
were unknown. There his kittens bore him little cats
in their turn; he sold them, made a large fortune,
returned to Jutland, and there built a castle, which he
called Katsholm.
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