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Identifier: ruraldenmarkitsl00hagg (find matches)
Title: Rural Denmark and its lessons
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture, Cooperative
Publisher: London New York Bombay Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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reds of years ago,I gather, there lived a lord of Hoiriis, who was aperson of revengeful temper. He had a pretty wife,and a friend with whom the pretty wife became toointimate. The husband discovering this, or perhapssuspecting it only, determined that an exampleshould be made. Indeed he bricked the lady upalive in his dining-room, and threw his friend intothe moat. So said the tradition, but now comes the curious partof the story. About a generation ago, I believe, part ofthe wall in the hall of the house fell down and revealeda recess carefully lined with oak, and in it the skeletonof a woman, while subsequent dredging in the moatbrought up the skeleton of a man. I wonder whetherthe owners of the house have preserved these in-teresting relics, or rather those connected with thelady, in situ, let us say behind a sheet of plate glass,or whether, yielding to modern squeamishness, theyhave conveyed them away. I wonder also if the justly,or unjustly indignant husband continued to eat his
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A Falster Chimney-sweep SOME FALSTER ISLAND FARMS 157 meals in the immediate neighbourhood of the oak-lined recess, and if so, whether the murdered wife andthe gentleman from the moat made things at all un-pleasant in the winter evenings. Were they not sogruesome, a good old-fashioned romance could bemade of these materials. A DANISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL As the educational system of a country has un-doubtedly much to do with the formation of thenational character and its success or failure amongpeoples, I made up my mind if possible to visit one ofthe Danish elementary schools. This, as it chanced,was easy for me, as Mr. Jerndorff Jessen,a gentlemanwith whom I have been acquainted by correspondencefor many years as the translator of books that I havewritten, is skole inspektor or headmaster of the greatSkolen paa Duevej in Frederiksberg, the well-knownsuburb of Copenhagen. Accepting his kind andpressing invitation, I spent a morning in visiting thisschool, and record my impressions of it

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