made, the tailors were obliged to use ladders to take his
measure; but one day an unfortunate tailor tickled him in the ear with
his scissors, and Holger Danske thought it was a flea, and squeezed
him to death between his fingers."

"There were giants in those days," said Hardy.

"There is in the Kloster (cloister) Church at Horsens a hole in the
wall, across which is an iron cross. Behind this a nun was walled up
alive. She had, it was said, been confined of a dog. There is a stone
in which a dog is figured, to preserve the recollection of so very
extraordinary a circumstance, and a place is shown where her fingers
marked the stone of the wall in her last agony."

"The practice of walling people up," said Hardy, "was very general in
Denmark, was it not?"

"Yes, if tradition be true," said the Pastor, "which, as you know, we
must receive _cum grano salis_. There is a story of a man walling up
his woman-servant, because she cooked a cat for his dinner. He had
caught a hare, but a dog had stolen it, so she cooked a cat instead.
This enraged her master, and he walled her up alive."

"Thank you, Herr Pastor, for your legends," said Hardy; "but I should
like to walk through the little town, and I dare say Karl and Axel
would too, if we may leave you and Froken Helga."

"By all means," said the Pastor, "and Helga will go too."

"No, little father, I will stay with you," said Helga. "You will have
no one to fill your pipe, and will feel lonely."

As John Hardy went out, he gave Karl and Axel some money. The boys
asked what it was for.

"To buy anything you like, as far it will go," said Hardy.

The boys, however, would not take it; they were sure their father
would not wish it, after the expense Hardy had already been put to on
their account.

"Your father would be quite right," said Hardy; but he recollected it,
and this small circumstance, told him that Karl could be trusted, and
assisted him more to get Karl a situation of trust than Hardy's
influence and that of his friends.

CHAPTER XVIII.

"_Viator._--Methinks the way is mended since I had
the good fortune to fall into your good company."
--_The Complete Angler._

Horsens was explored the next day, but Hardy had a purpose in view. He
knew his mother would like to see photographs of his Danish friends.
The chief reason for a walk the night before was to ascertain the
photographer's shop. This he discovered, and proposed that they s