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68
GAMMEL-ESTRUP.
Chap. XXXIII.
keep, I ask this time, in my very best Danish,
‘•’How many horses?” Eighty-five is the reply, in
the stable, for farm purposes as well. We are now
in the horse country. There was a cattle-market at
Banders this morning—mercifully we were spared a
horse-market: last week there were more than a
thousand brought in for sale; good strong animals they
are too, perhaps a little heavy in the shoulder.
Six thousand were lately sent to France, and orders
came for three thousand more. The “Jagt,” too, is
excellent, deer, chevreuil, birds of all kinds in
abundance, and fish into the bargain. We now take our
leave, and jump out for one minute at Auning church
to visit the monument of Count Jørgen Scheel. He
reclines, after the manner of his day, in long curled
wig and armour (Danes wore it later than other
nations), bearing in his hand a baton, of some kind
he had probably used in lifetime; beside him an
angel sounds the last trump, while about his head
a sister seraph unfolds a roll of marble, on which
appear in bas-relief the features of the Russian
Empress— queer idea, considering the scandal of the
times! Having tipped the “ Deacon,” as they here
call the grave-digger—an odd jumble of clerical titles
— we are again en route. Jutland farmers make
their own bricks, bake them at the house-side, and
build them to the ready established timber as soon as
worked and dry. We meet a chevreuil browsing on
the heath, and then a manor-house, which the talkative
postboy greatly admires, painted bright yellow. No
signposts, and bye-roads by the dozen. We miss our
way, and after a great deal of hallooing and inquiring
arrive at the fetry’s side, whose barge, for conveni-
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