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PRÆSTO.
Chap. LV.
posed selling their supplies of corn and other provisions
by auction. So the Jutlanders, ever true patriots,
agreed they would none of them purchase the articles,
and that the Polacs should derive no benefit from the
disposal of their stores. The sale commenced, but no
bidders appeared, save one aged peasant, a man who
could not resist the temptation of the low prices, and,
much to the disgust of his companions, he purchased
the corn of the Polacs. “ It will do you no good,”
they exclaimed ; “ recollect the old song:—
* When the Dane or the Swede
Sow German seed,
Ill luck will come to both Dane and to Swede.’ ”
But he laughed and went his way. Part of the corn he
gave to his horses; they sickened at once and died, so he
sowed the remainder; and when it came up, the fields
were yellow as gold—it was two parts “ morgen frue
the flowers seeded; the evil spread; and now you find
this plant growing far and wide, to the injury of the
crops of the Danish islands and Jutland south of the
Liimfiorde.
PRÆSTO.
We approach the prettily-situated town of Præsto,
or the Island of Priests—one Lutheran parson alone
rules here supreme. We go to the little inn, where the
landlord insists on preparing us a dinner which never
can be ready before to-morrow morning. We first visit the
banks of the lovely little fiorde—so blue, so wooded, so
serene. Danish scenery is invented for the soothing of
ruffled nerves. I highly recommend doctors to order
thereunto all their hypochondriacal patients. Then we
pass by an avenue of limes to Nysø, the manorial resi-
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