72 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



in Lund. It seemed he was chief mourner there. What 

 was he to do ? He went out of the cathedral with the 

 others and still followed the procession, which now bore 

 the coffin beneath the banners, the chaplets and 

 mementoes being carried by the principal students, 

 Carl Tiliander walking among the first. They carried 

 the coffin first to the Kloster church (near the present 

 railway-station), where an office was recited, and con- 

 veyed it, now on a funeral car, to the cemetery on the 

 high ground to the east of the town. White-capped 

 students carried the banners, professors and students 

 of the highest grade came next, the whole body of the 

 students following to solemn music of a martial kind. 



What was Linnaeus to do now ? He must after all 

 bind himself apprentice to one of the numerous shoe- 

 makers in Lund. SkSne abounds in shoemakers, for all 

 that many little boys run barefoot. That trade is over- 

 crowded, for here, as in Denmark, it rains shoemakers 

 and shoemakers' boys. 1 



They were all departing, when one of the principal 

 men forming the procession perceived Linnaeus, and 

 struck by his appearance of dejection as he sat himself 

 despondently on a tombstone near the late professor's 

 grave, he came up and spoke to him. It was Gabriel 

 Hok, the suitor of his sister Anna Maria. Hok recog- 

 nised him at once. 



' Hallo, Carl ! what are you doing here ? ' or its 

 equivalent in Swedish. 



1 Danish proverb. 



