Stories of persons and places in Europe . on their houses, fences, or on along pole for the sight of the little creatures fluttering around these sheaves, fillingtheir hungry crops with the grain, warms the hearts of these kindly peopleand prepares them for a heartier enjoyment of their own feast. The oldhorse, the cattle, and even the goats and pigs, are given a double portion offood on this day, often more than they can eat. A great deal of cleaning is also done on the day before Christmas. Thefloors are scrubbed and strewn with fir or juniper leaves, and when all is 84 Persons and
Stories of persons and places in Europe . on their houses, fences, or on along pole for the sight of the little creatures fluttering around these sheaves, fillingtheir hungry crops with the grain, warms the hearts of these kindly peopleand prepares them for a heartier enjoyment of their own feast. The oldhorse, the cattle, and even the goats and pigs, are given a double portion offood on this day, often more than they can eat. A great deal of cleaning is also done on the day before Christmas. Thefloors are scrubbed and strewn with fir or juniper leaves, and when all is 84 Persons and Places in Europe. finished, every member of the family takes a bath. Sometimes, sad to say,it is the only bath they do take in the whole year. Much merry-making goes on among the young people during the feast,they hide each others shoes, black their faces, dress up in all sorts offantastical clothing, sing songs and dance, and have a much happier timethan people who have more of the good things of the world, but less good-ness of TRONDHJEM CATHEDRAL. CHAPTER IV. DENMARK. The low, flat country that rises out of the sea just south of Norway andSweden, forming with them the third Scandinavian country, has received, ifanything, fewer blessings from the hand of Nature than her sisters to thenorth, and more adversities. She is the victim of blasting fogs, ocean floodsand desolating storms of wind and sand. But when the sun does come outhe shines upon many a bright-green meadow, grain covered hill, rich darkforest, neatly kept garden and snug little cottage ; and also upon many fineold castles filled with the memories and relics of Denmarks former Denmark has had days of glory ; her dominion once extended over thewhole of Scandinavia, far away Iceland and Greenland, and other islands ofthe sea. But Norway and Sweden have been taken from her, Schleswig-Holstein cut off, and now only a little corner of Northwestern Europe is lefther, the barren peninsula of Jutland an
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