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94
TISE—VILD MOSE.
Chap. XXXV.
its old carved roodloft, the gift of Peter Munk and
Karen Skeel. There stands the tomb of J ørgen Bille—
a wicked old soul he must have been, for the very red
coat in his coffin to be so restless. There it lies, a
coat of some hundred and fifty years since, broad
lappels and bordered. Each time the
neighbouring manor changes hands the coat is said to leave its
coffin, stalk on its tails to the manor-house, and there
hover about restlessly, turning up on every side—on
the dinner-table, hanging over the arm-chair, flapping
its lappels in your face as you pass the corridor,
positively refusing to be quiet until replaced by the new
proprietor himself in its former resting-place.
TISE—VILD MOSE.
We are now mended and arranged, just in time
to stop at a kro to bait; so we walk on. Turn to the
west, says the postilion, and then to the south-east.
Jutlanders calculate everything by the points of the
compass: we accomplish the west, but then stick on a
bank till the carriage arrives, our knowledge aiding us
to proceed no further. A dreary drive over a cross
road brings us to Tise; where we ascend to the church
cemetery to obtain a view of the Vild Mose—the most
extensive bog in Jutland, if not in Europe—another
slopping of the deluge, dried up, and, like many other
sloppings, leaving a dirty black mark on the fair face
of nature. As far as eye can gaze, and further still,
extends a vast expanse of mose, seldom traversed save
by the sportsman after blackgame, and he must leap
from hillock to hillock, for the bog is formed of small
sugar-loaf mounds; and should his foot miss its
destina
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