heard at the distance of many miles. The salt foam flew together
with the sand into our faces."

"That must have been splendid!" exclaimed Wilhelm, and his eyes
sparkled. "Jutland is certainly the most romantic part of Denmark.
Since I read Steen-Blicher's novels I have felt a real interest for
that country. It seems to me that it must greatly resemble the
Lowlands of Scotland. And gypsies are also found there, are they
not?"

"Vagabonds, we call them," said Otto, with an involuntary motion of
the mouth. "They correspond to the name!"

"The fishermen, also, on the coast are not much better! Do they
still from the pulpit pray for wrecks? Do they still slay
shipwrecked mariners?"

"I have heard our preacher, who is an old man, relate how, in the
first years after he had obtained his office and dignity, he was
obliged to pray in the church that, if ships stranded, they might
strand in his district; but this I have never heard myself. But
with regard to what is related of murdering, why, the fishermen--
sea-geese, as they are called--are by no means a tender-hearted
people; but it is not as bad as that in our days. A peasant died in
the neighborhood, of whom it was certainly related that in bad
weather he had bound a lantern under his horse's belly and let it
wander up and down the beach, so that the strange mariner who was
sailing in those seas might imagine it some cruising ship, and thus
fancy himself still a considerable way from land. By this means
many a ship is said to have been destroyed. But observe, these are