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Chap. XXXIII.
COMMERCE.
63
deals en masse from Norway and Sweden, for the
Jutland peasants are inveterate builders; then, too, they
export corn and fish, their far-famed dry salmon fetching
a higher price in the market than any other. Pork,
too, they salt in Jutland, and Panders manufactures
linen—quite a little commerce of their own; on the
other side is the barge laden ready for Silkeborg—an
eight days’ passage.
To-day is market-day; such a rich market! Look
at the butter: the meat of best quality, 3^d. a Danish
pound, two ounces more than the English; second
quality, 3d. Look at the potatoes and other vegetables;
above all, those splendid pots of yellow piccotees laden
with flowers. Observe, too, those old Jutland peasants,
—their pictimesque costumes, Hessian boots, velvet
breeches, and old-cut coat of our grandfathers’ days,
covered with huge silver buttons. And the women
bringing their rolls of home-made linen to market:
how solid, how well-to-do they look I a pleasure to see
them! no finery, but good, wrought, stout, homespun
dresses. The young men, sad to say, run after modern
fashions, adopt the town-made trousers, and fight shy
of good mud-preserving Hessians. Panders possesses
one fine church, dedicated to St. Morten, founded,
as a fresco on, the walls denotes, “ In memoriam,”
by good King John, who all devoutly hope
“re-quiescat in pace.” You walk over sepulchral stones,
—knights, burghers, and ladies, plenty of them, none
remarkable that you ever heard of. Not far from the
church stands an hospital for one hundred and fifty aged
men and women, clothed and fed, as well as pensions of
twenty-five dollars yearly paid to out-door pensioners,—
a charitable foundation raised on the very spot where,
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