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land who flourished long before Christ was born. 

 Formerly there were many more of these tumuli, 

 which have been levelled. When opened they were 

 found to contain a few bones, and with them stone or 

 bronze weapons and amber. Now, I am glad to say, 

 any further destruction of such monuments has been 

 forbidden, so there they stand in their solemn and 

 pathetic loneliness, hiding the secrets of the race that 

 reared them, of which they are the sole memorials. 

 Those who built their monuments of earth were wise, 

 since nothing that men's hands can raise endures so 

 long. 



Like most of the landowners in Denmark, the 

 Misses Roulund farm all their own land. They keep 

 twenty horses and one hundred and fifty head of black- 

 and-white cattle, of which seventy are cows. All the 

 milk is sent to a co-operative factory in which the 

 Misses Roulund have shares. Their staff consists of 

 twelve men, who live on the place and are helped 

 by from two to six small-holders according to the 

 season of the year. The foreman or steward receives 

 44, 6s. 8d. per annum with board and lodging, the 

 under-foreman ^22, 3s. 4d., and the other hands from 

 ,16, 1 os. to ;i9, 1 os. Boys are paid from ^11 to 

 13, 15s. All of these are boarded and lodged. The 

 small-holders or husmaend receive is. 8d. a day in 

 summer, 2s. 3d. a day in harvest, and from g|d. to 

 is. i^d. in winter. Also they are given a free house, 

 free milk, free turf-fuel, and a small garden if they 

 want it, which Miss Roulund informed me is not often 

 the case. 



She said that the labour is not so good as it used 

 to be, since the rising generation does not take the 

 same interest in its business as did their fathers before 



