In the more modern history of this town, King Solomon and Joergen the hatter play a considerable role.

Besides this, I know that the town is said once to have possessed a private theatre; but this soon was done for, and the decorations were sold; a miller bought them, and patched his windmill sails with them.

Upon one sail was a piece of a wood, upon another a shred of a room, or a street; and so they rushed round one after the other.

Perhaps this is mere slander, for I have my information from Slagelse; and neighboring towns never speak well of each other." In this manner Wilhelm gossiped on, and the friends travelled over the way he had described.

Slagelse, and the peasant village of Landsgrav, they had already behind them, when Wilhelm ordered the coachman to diverge from the high-road toward the right.
"Where will you take us to ?" asked Otto.
"I will give you a pleasure!" returned Wilhelm.