CHAPTER XV.
"His coal was coarse, its fashion old; He asked no dress of greater worth Than that which kept from storm and cold The Baptist when he preached on earth." C.J.

BORE.
Not alone of Otto's affairs, but also of "the city yonder," as the preacher called Copenhagen, would he speak.

Only once a week came the "Viborg Collector" to hint, and the Copenhagen papers were a whole month going their round.

"One would willingly advance with the time," said he.
Yesterday, at the interment, he had not found it seemly to gratify his desire of hearing dear Otto talk about the city, but to-day he thought it might well be done, and therefore he would not await Otto's visit but come over to pay one himself.
"Thou hast certainly seen our good king ?" was his first question.

"Lord help the anointed one! he is then as vigorous and active as ever--my good King Frederik!" And now he must relate a trait which had touched his heart, and which, in his opinion, deserved a place in the annals of history.