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104
HØGHOLT.
Chap. XXXVI.
triple row of trees. You enter the court by a bridge
crossing the moat from behind; the moat green, its banks
clothed with flowering elders. As usual in these parts,
a quaint round tower rises from the inner court. The
entry I Powers ! had you met the milk-cart laden with
its pails overflowing, slopping away upon the pavement,
rich creamy produce of the cow—why, the bi-diurnal
sloppings of the Høgholt dairy would alone have set
up a London dairyman for life.
Fish were rising in the lake, and nets hung out to
dry in the cherry-orchard show that the fresh-water
produce of the lake is not despised. I am often
astonished in England to see how people neglect the
fresh-water stews, which in ancient days teemed with
pike, carp, perch, eels, and tench. You reply, In
England we are spoiled for fish. In London, yes; but
in the country, no;—it’s not you, it’s the fish which are
spoiled.
The excellence of fresh-water fish depends as much
on the previous care bestowed upon them as on the
art of cooking. I remember once, in an old French
chateau, to have seen a kitchen in the centre of which
were placed two fountains, with basins en étage, in
which the live fish were kept sorted in pure running
water for some days previous to their being dressed, and
fed with dough, bread-crumbs, and clean food.
Y e quit Høgholt, reminding me much of “Mariana’s
moated grange ”—a charming subject for the pencil,
but not a place to live in. “ I’m aweary, I’m aweary,”
others than Mariana must have sung therein. Pass
my life in such a place ! I’d rather drown myself in
one of the Brobdignagian milk-pails. The moor grows
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