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Too Old.--ByCarit Etlar.
AuntFrancisca.--By Carl Bernhard.
The Shipwrecked Mariner's Treasure.--By Carit Etlar.
Damon and Pythias.--By Carl Bernhard.
TheFatal Chain.--From the Swedish of Uncle Adam.
Between Fredericia and Snoghöi the sandy and stony shore forms atolerably broad tongue of land, which is called Lyngspoint. The coaststretches out long and flat, without any defence against the sea excepta stone wall, and the fishermen who dwell here seem to have thought ofnothing but the safe little bays that, on either side of thepromontory, afford shelter to their small skiffs and protect them fromthe wild waves, and the blocks of ice which during winter thenorth-west winds drive in from the Kattegat.
Farther up on the land, the bare, desolate-looking plain of sanddisappears by degrees under high banks which are overgrown by a thick,low copse of brushwood, with some stunted oak and beech-trees showingthemselves as sad mementoes of an extensive wood, that formerly joinedthe forest of Erizö, and in the midst of which the village of Hannerupwas situated. The village and the wood have both disappeared longsince.
Far in among the bushes people sometimes stumble upon pieces of brokenstones with their mouldering cement of lime, the last fragments of thework and walls of ages gone by: in a few years the copse itself willhave vanished, and the blackbird and the thrush, whose blithe carols onthe summer evenings were heard even by those sailing near in the Belt,will seek other leafy homes.
At a little distance from the sea-shore at Lyngspoint stand ten ortwelve small cottages, built in the irregular style which is alwaysobservable in the houses of the peasantry of ancient days, and composedof hard clay framework and thatched roofs. To each cottage therebelongs a small garden enclosed by a low