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On our arrival in Den and queen of that country

elevated in two ar a Court The

whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble

boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer

with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life,

and the Danish chivalry with a co on the whole a feloomily apart, with folded arms, and I could have wished

that his curls and forehead had been more probable

Several curious little circu of the country not only appeared to have been troubled

with a cough at the time of his decease, but to have taken it with hiht it back The royal phantohostly manuscript round its truncheon, to which it had the appearance

of occasionally referring, and that too, with an air of anxiety and a

tendency to lose the place of reference which were suggestive of a state

of mortality It was this, I conceive, which led to the Shade's being

advised by the gallery to "turn over!"--a recommendation which it took

extremely ill It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that

whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time

and walked an iuous wall This occasioned its terrors to be received derisively