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Chap. LI.
MØEN.
317
lier husband had always at his command. A neighbour
asked him for the loan of a hundred pounds : he went to
a cupboard and took it at once from what appeared to
be an empty hog’s bladder; but the borrower heard
groans issuing from the bladder, as though the fairy
within was bewailing the loss of the money. When a
corpse leaves the door, they cast a pail of water behind
it, that the ghost may not reappear. On
Christmas-eve those who wish their fruit-trees to bear an
abundant crop go into the garden at midnight, and,
taking the sticks from the bakers’ ovens, strike each
tree tlirice, exclaiming, “ Rejoice 0 tree,—rejoice, and
be fruitful! ’
We reach the ferry, leaving to the left the small
town of Stubbekjøbing, and in a minute are lauded on
the opposite coast of Møen.
ISLAND OF MØEN.
A two hours’ drive brought us to Stege. The small
hotel was full of bathers, tea-drinking and eating their
suppers in the garden overlooking the sea. A church
with lofty massive tower and quaint old gate-house,
a rarity in Denmark. The moats exist still, and are
nicely laid out in promenades. The castle has long
since disappeared, granted by King Erik, after the
death of Queen Philippa, to a certain Dorothea, a
strong-minded young woman, quite above the prejudices of
this world, who bore inscribed upon her signet-ring the
words “Dorothea, King Erik’s concubine.” We drove
on, passed by two or three villages, having for ever a
gray ridge of mountains before us—elsewhere you would
have called them hillocks—and then came to a stone
which by daylight indicates the way “ To Liselund ; ”
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