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Chap. LUI.
FARMING—RØ.
343
houses—small establishments when compared with those
of Jutland. The farms here are seldom of more
than 200 acres. Land has lately much increased in
value. One farm, which some twenty-five years ago
was valued at 2000 dollars, was lately sold for 12,000.
The peasants are most careful cultivators. When
the rye is sown, not one pebble is allowed to remain
on the surface of the field. Were it a
geraniumbed, it could not be more delicately raked or the ground
finer; for this there is but one explanation—the peasant
is here no tenant: the land is his own property; four
or six horses are the extent of his possessions and a few
farm-boys his labourers. The farm-buildings have a
“ cocky ” appearance about them, unlike to sober
Denmark. Each gable, be there ten of them, is surmounted
by a vane.
We enter the parish of Rø. Perched upon a neigh-t
bouring høi stands what first appears a stork’s nest
on a pile of faggots within an open wooden frame:
but it’s no such tiling; in each successive village you
will come across the same—a beacon, always ready
prepared, in time of peace as war, in case of a
descent upon the island. No sooner does fire blaze up
high into the sky than the church belfries send forth a
peal. The alarm once given, a dozen others flame in tho
neighbouring parishes; more bells ring, and the
inhabitants rise to arms.
Before arriving at the church of Rø, built by one
Simon Rø and his twelve sons—all named, from some
vagary of his own, Simon, after himself—we turn off
the road to visit the rock scenery of Bornholm. Guide
not quite sure of his way ; we therefore halloo to a farmer
busily sowing his wheat from an oblong basket. Farmer
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