nued Pastor Lindal; "but,
like other translations, they lose immeasurably by translation."

"What is the chief historical interest connected with Odense?" asked
Mrs. Hardy.

"The death of St. Knud," replied the Pastor. "He was the grand-nephew
of Canute the Great. He was killed in the church of St Albanus, in
1086, by his rebellious subjects. He wanted to make war on England, as
he claimed the English throne, and they resisted; so far it is
history. The story is that he was pursued, and fled to the church, and
prayed for his enemies. He saw a Jutland man looking at him through a
window of the church, and the king asked for water. The man ran to a
stream and fetched water in a cup; but as he reached it to the king,
another man struck the cup with his spear, and the water was spilt,
and the king was killed by a stone thrown at him. The man who had
prevented the king getting the cup of water went out of his mind, and
had always a burning thirst, and on going to a well to drink fell
down, and stuck in it over the water, which he could not reach, and so
perished. The king was canonized, but is said to occasionally visit
the church, where he was buried, from his place amongst the angels.
This church he had just commenced to build. There is a story that when
the tower was building, an apprentice told his master he was as good a
builder. The master-builder went out of the tower on the scaffolding
and stuck an axe into it, and told the apprentice to go and fetch it,
if he could. The apprentice went, but called out that an adjoining
village was approaching the town of Odense. 'Then God have mercy on
your soul' said the master-builder. The apprentice fell to the ground
and was killed. There is, however, a variation of this story, which
localizes it in Copenhagen at Our Lady's Church there, and that the
apprentice cried out that he saw two axes. The result was the same."

"Thank you very much, Herr Pastor," said Mrs. Hardy. "You must try and
keep up the practice of speaking English." The Pastor was in the habit
of falling back on his own language when he had a difficulty, for John
Hardy to interpret.

"I think we should have but one language all over the world," said the
Pastor, "and that language should be English."

"There is not much to see at Nyborg, mother," said John, "and the
pilot says if we leave early to-morrow that we had best anchor outside
the harbour, clear of the course of the steamers from Korsor. We shall
hav