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SVENDBORG.
Chap. XLVIII.
but no one liked to watch the Nisses; it brings ill luck.
At last the blacksmith was induced, by the promise of
a sack of wheat from each farmer of the two villages,
to lie in ambush among the branches of a willow, the
boundary of the two parishes. After a time, he saw from
his hiding-place approach the Niss of Lørup, and then
that of Ryslinge, each loaded with a sack of corn:
they met under the willow-tree. “ Hallo I” exclaimed
the Niss of Ryslinge, “ you rascal—to rob my master! ”
“ And you, you blackguard, what are you about, stealing
the parish corn ?” Then they fell to fighting, and after
a little time the Niss of Ryslinge took to his heels. “ I
got the best of it,” said he of Lørup, looking up into the
tree. “Yes,” said the blacksmith, but he gave you the last
blow.” On hearing this the Niss threw down the sack
of corn, and ran after his antagonist. The blacksmith
then jumped from his tree, picked up the two sacks
of wheat, and came home to the village to claim his
reward.
We again get glimpses of the sea, a fiorde, the island
of Thorseng before us; we descend à cöte; down a hill
and up again, and are disembarked at the only hotel of
the place—the post-inn of Svendborg.
SVENDBORG.
August 6th.— Our post-gaard, most conveniently
situated for “ changing of horses,” looks nowhere ; the
place is full of bathers, and the house noisy. The town
itself, perched on a hill-side, must tell better from the
island of Thorseng, on the opposite side of the fiorde;
but nothing more soft, more pretty, can be well
described than the wood-clothed banks, extending towards
Christiansminde. Our first stroll did not however run
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