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CHAPTER VIII
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Whilst still a boy I saw little skull of one of these beasts.

This is the last adventure left us from the visit of the Spaniards to Denmark.

In the village through which we shall now pass are some outer remembrances.

Remark the young lads and lasses,--they are of a darker complexion than the inhabitants of other Funen valleys; that is Spanish blood, it is said.

It was in this village that the story took its rise of the preacher's servant-girl, who wept and was so inconsolable at the departure of the Spaniards.


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