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Chap. XLIV. " INN OF THE OLDEN TIME. 213
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green Holmsland, with its two white churches, the most
fertile meadow-land in all the surrounding country.
Very small this town appears as we drive on, the capital
of a county, too. We reach the square. The hotel stands
before us, an old carved timber house, its windows
shaded by a row of ancient clipped elms. “Well,”
exclaims one of the family, “ here is a picturesque old
inn, the first we have yet come too: do look too at the
iron-work of the bell—a rose, and that wreath of leaves
and border—how charming!” only it does not ring.
Tuesday, July Väth.—We are quite glad of a rest;
and there is nothing in the world so charming as a
hostel of the olden time, externally. As for the interior,
I am not quite so sure of the fact: scrub those old
worm-eaten boards for ever they will never look clean;
and as for the beams, only walk across the room and
the dust pours down from the ceiling—better in
watercolours than in reality.
There is not much to see in Ringkjøbing—indeed
nothing at all. Its palmy days are over. Tjiie opening
of the Agger Canal destroyed its commerce, at one time
(in the days of Peter Tang) considerable, with Holland
and other countries; but we were glad of a couple of
days’ rest, and passed them very pleasantly in the
society of our friends Count and Countess Schulin and
their charming family.
Having nothing particular to do, I accompanied the
Profet to the town-house, and visited the new prison—
airy, clean, and ventilated to perfection, quite a pleasure
to be incarcerated therein—and then visited the city
“ fattighuus,” which you must not confuse with an “
hospital or almshouseit answers to our “ union,” and is
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