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LANGELAND.
Chap. XLIX.
him be 200 thalers.” We visited the park, extensive and
English-]ike, and the gardens running down to the lake
side, its orchard, and the sward as green as a polished
emerald. From the blue waters of the lake rises a
small, very small, island, like those we keep for swans
to build their nests on. Around the edges was planted a
garland of that large creeper, * with a leaf the size of
a catalpa, so commonly seen running over summer-houses
in England. It grew luxuriantly, its tendrils running
down and floating in the limpid waters ; then from the
centre of this trailing border rose a pyramid of
hollyhocks—red, yellow, white, am} rose-coloured—dancing
and nodding in the breeze: some stand stiff and stately,
scarcely reflected in the lake below; whilst others,
Narcissus-like, bend forward, longing to catch a glimpse
of their golden and roseate petals in the pure mirror.
Langeland is termed un vrai jardin. Well, it may
be one, for what I know-—its villages, its hop-gardens,
its orchards are prosperous, the wild vine is in full
luxuriance and flower, its churches in good repair—all
tells of a resident landlord who does his duty in that
station of life in which he is placed—but somehow I
don’t care for fertilitv when travelling; we have enough
of hedges and ditches in England; all is prosperous,
and, like Alexander Selkirk’s complaint of his beasts,
“ Their tameness is shocking to me.”
So we returned to our hotel, and the next morning
drove over to the ferry, where we re-embarked for
Lolland.
* Aristolochia sipho.
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