CHAPTER XI.
"Dance and stamp Till the shoe-soles drop!" -- Danish Popular Song.
On the following day should the much-talked-of mowing-festival take place.

It was the hay-harvest which occasioned all this merriment.
[Author's Note: It is true that serfdom is abolished, but the peasant is still not quite free; neither can he be so.

For his house and land he must pay a tribute, and this consists in labor.

His own work must give way to that of his lord.

His wagon, which he has had prepared to bring home his own harvest, must, if such be commanded, go to the nobleman's land, and there render service.