CHAPTER II.

Copenhagen--Children of Amak--Brisk bargaining--Specimens of horn fish--Unlucky dogs--Thorwaldsen’s museum--The Royal Assistenz House--Going, gone--The Ethnographic Museum--An inexorable professor--Lionizes a big-wig--The stone period in Denmark--England’s want of an ethnographical collection--A light struck from the flint in the stag’s head--The gold period--A Scandinavian idol’s cestus--How dead chieftains cheated fashion--Antiquities in gold--Wooden almanacks--Bridal crowns--Scandinavian antiquities peculiarly interesting to Englishmen--Four thousand a year in return for soft sawder--Street scenes in Copenhagen--Thorwaldsen’s colossal statues--Blushes for Oxford and Cambridge--A Danish comedy--Where the warriors rest pp. 18-38