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lmøen.
Chap. LI.
singing to the full extent of their voice. Horses, men,
women, -all were decorated with garlands of leaves and
flowers, the latter bearing in their hands large bouquets
stuck upon the ends of long sticks, most Bacchanalian,
like a picture of Jaques Jordaen’s. Then later other
carts, decorated and begarlanded like the first, followed
in succession; and when all had duly arrived, a sort of
rustic Silenus, more horrid-looking than can be
imagined, approaches, according to ancient custom, the
farmer and his wife, and, sickle in hand, exclaims—
“ We have cut the corn; it is ripe; it is gathered
in. Will you now that we cut the cabbages in the
garden ? ”
“No, thank you,” replied the huusbond and the
hustru ; “ we had rather not.”
“ But we will: the corn is gathered in; we will now
cut the cabbages in the garden.”
“ No,” answers the master, “ as the corn is ripened
and is gathered into the barn, we will give you a festival.”
The company are now satisfied; supper is furnished
for them, and they pass an evening of innocent jollity.
Beyond this little fete of the harvest-home, Liselund is
all quiet and repose. The church-bells alone sound in
the distance; they ring up (as the expression goes) the
sun, and ring it down again; and then in the midst
you hear nine distinct strokes—one, the first, clear and
solemn, for the Pater Noster; seven for the seven
separate petitions of the Lord’s Prayer; and lastly you
hear a loud booming ninth proclaiming Amen.*
* The twelve o’clock bell was first appointed in 1455, by Pope
Nicholas V., who orders that the bells be rung every day at that hour, in
order that the people, on hearing them, may offer up a prayer for the
Christians fighting against the heathen in foreign lands.
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