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HEE.
Chap. XLIV.
CHAPTER XLIV.
The bells of Thim — Gyldenstierne of Thimgaard — Poorhouse of
Kingkjøbing— Old rat of Hee— Threshing to the sound of music.
HEE.
July V&th.—We quitted our kind entertainer this
morning at ten. The Professor was already off early
to an agricultural meeting on the road; and after
much leave-taking and thanks for hospitality, we
started, as fast as our host’s four horses could carry us,
on our road; first stopping at the kro at Hee, where we
found not only Mr. Tang, but our old acquaintance
Count Schulin, the amtman, all busily engaged
discussing some new improvement in the fabrication of
butter—very unnecessary, for, talk for ever, they will
never make it better than they do in Jutland.
They have an abominable custom in this country, that
of selling the old gravestones from the churchyards,
when the families are extinct: it is downright sacrilege,
and is the only case in which the love of “ bon marché ”
has got the better of the hereditary superstition of the
natives. Here the three steps of the kro are formed of
three separate “ In piam memoriams,” — cherubim,
hourglasses, and floriated crosses, trodden under foot.
The same custom exists at Thisted. In the town street
at Holstrebro a pile of ten were lying in a corner of
the church cemetery, some really of considerable
beauty, waiting to be purchased. It is a villanous
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