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Chap. XLVIII.
THE ISLAND OF THORSENG.
269
“ What can I do,” he asked of her head magistrate, a
priest, one Hans Gaas, “to reward your faithful
services?” “How,” answered the magistrate, humbly,
“ can a poor goose (Gaas) like me have done service
to so great a sovereign?” Nothing like humility in
this world: the Geese became ennobled; and Hans,
Archbishop of Tronyem.
THE ISLAND OF THORSENG.
August 8th.—We pass through the post-gaard garden,
luxuriant in trees laden with unripe apples, to the
detriment of the stomachs, I should imagine, of the
tribe of babbling children who dwell within—seductive
too with skittles and swings; turn into the road through
a gate, and by a sharp descent gain the little jetty
where the ferry-boats already await the passengers for
Thorsen g. A ten minutes’ sail brings us to shore.
The sun is high in the heavens, and we have a long
walk before us. Svendborg looks better from the other
side. Then too you have St. George’s church and wood,
and Christiansminde as well; but our first excursion
leads us to the church-tower of Bregninge, the highest
point in the island, from whose summit you gain a
panoramic view of all the Danish archipelago—Lolland,
Langeland, Funen, Ærø, and half a dozen other 0s,
small fry, unknown to the world in general—all very
flat, very green, very blue, and satisfactory to those who
care for bird’s-eye views, without a background beyond
the gray horizon.
This isle of Thorseng, flat though it be, is fair and
fruitful, the possession of the noble house of Juel,
descendants of the gallant Admiral Niels Juel, whose
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