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Chap. LV.
THE GIANT GIRL.
373
everything. Once on a time in the neighbourhood
of Nestved there lived a giant girl, a good girl enough,
only she had long, bare legs, and the boys laughed
at her, calling out “ Long shanks 1 long shanks! ”
whenever she appeared. One day they worried and
teased her beyond all bearing; in a fury she rushed
down to the sea-shore, and, filling her apron with sand,
was about to overwhelm the town of Nestved, and
bury houses and inhabitants, rude boys and girls
together ; only there was a hole in her apron, and, as in
her rage and haste she hurried along, the sand ran out,
and when she arrived, quite out of breath, it was nearly
all gone, so she plumped down the remainder just at
the highest spot, turned tail, and was never seen again
in the island of Zealand.
The way appeared to us somewhat long, varied
only by occasional patches of beauty—untidy, stubbly
fields—the yellow chrysanthemum, as noxious weeds
always do in this world, growing and flowering in
luxuriance. “ Morgen frue,” or lady of the morn,* as it
is called by the simple and unsophisticated, a curse to
the agriculturist, was until just two hundred years since
unknown in the Danish dominions.
It was in the year 1659, when peace was proclaimed
between Denmark and the Swedes, that the
Branden-burghers and the Polacs were about to quit Jutland.
Allies they were in name, but nothing more; they
did greater harm by their ill deeds than the enemy
themselves—destroyed, robbed, pillaged, and it is now
said that the Jutlanders have never since recovered
their prosperity. Before leaving the country they pur-
Clirysanthemum segetum.
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