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HJALLERUP.
Chap. XXXVII.
custom. When the servant-girl boils the eggs, she is
careful, as soon as they are put into the saucepan, to
repeat twice the Lord’s Prayer slowly and with
reverence, for then the eggs will be well boiled, neither too
hard nor too soft, and are sure to have a good flavour.
When she takes the eggs from under the hen she never
leaves less than five, for the hens can count up to that
number and no more.
4^ July.—Three days’ rest at Aalborg. Not quite
so for me, as I must be up betimes to visit Nørlund,
some five Danish miles distant: my series of historic
manors will not be complete without. The want of
energy in womankind is fearful: no one will accompany
me. As for Christina Munk, they have done with her,
visited the place she died, and don’t want to commence
over again at her birthplace. So, unencumbered by
capes and shawls, and other discomforts which invariably
accompany the presence of ladies, I slip into my
stuhl-wagen at three minutes before five, without any feeling of
irritation at being kept waiting. All smooth and sefene
this morning; electric telegraph rather in bad books
to-day; road dull and ugly until we arrive at Svenstrup
Heath, black and redolent with patches of fragrant
thyme. Capital place for a battle : room for a charge,
though the retreating cavalry would run a good chance
of getting bogged, whichever way they took.
We pass by Buderupgaard, prettily situated off the
road, remarkable as being the only manor which escaped
devastation at the hands of Skipper Clemens. The road
now improves. Near Gravlev, a village beautifully
situated on the heights above, is a lake, now half-dried
up; in a few years it will all be under cultivation.
Take the map in your hand and the high ground of
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