All who visit me, ladies and gentlemen without any exception, must try it!" "And do the cherry-trees bear well this year ?" asked Wilhelm.
"No, no," answered the Kammerjunker, "they are good for nothing; but the apples are good! All the old trees in the hill-garden stand in full splendor: I've brought them into condition! Two years ago there was not, on all the trees together, a bushel of fruit.

But I had all the horses which had to be bled led under the trees, and had the warm blood sprinkled upon the roots; this happened several times, and it has been a real inoculation for life." "The wind is certainly favorable," said Otto, whom this conversation began to weary.
"No, just the contrary!" said the Kammerjunker.

"The vane upon the little house yonder lies; it points always to Nyborg, always shows a good wind for us when we want to leave.

In Nyborg is also a vane, which stands even as firmly as this, and prates to the folk there of good wind.

I regard both vanes as a kind of guide-post, which merely says, There goes the way! No, if we had had a wind I should have gone with the boat, and not with the little splashing thing, as the seamen call the steamboat.