CHAPTER XIX.
"Geske .-- Have you put syrup in the coffee?
Henrich .-- Yes, I have.
Geske .-- Be so good, dear madams, be so kind as to be contented." HOLBERG'S Political Pewterer.
Lemvig lies, as is well known, on an arm of the Limfjord.

The legend relates, that in the Swedish war a troop of the enemy's cavalry compelled a peasant here to mount his horse and serve as a guide.
Darkness came on; they found themselves already upon the high sand-banks.

The peasant guided his horse toward a steep precipice; in a farm-house on the other side of the fjord they perceived a light.

"That is Lemvig," said the peasant; "let us hasten!" He set spurs to his horse, the Swedes followed his example, and they were precipitated into the depth: the following morning their corpses were found.

The monument of this bold Lemvig peasant consists of this legend and in the songs of the poets; and these are the monuments which endure the longest.