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"Nah, yuh won't, eider some one else brought in th' tripod and ha'r it 'tis!" With that Jake displayed the article wanted. "Who found it? No one could take a horse," exclaimed Jim, perplexed. Then Jake leaned over and whispered in his ear: "The Boss hisself!
He showed the large stem of the sweetbrier under which they passed as they went into the house, such as Arnold had seen hanging over many a New-England porch, large enough for many initials to be carved upon it. They sat down in the little front-room, and talked on as the mother brought the promised mug of eider.
In the early morning it was put to the vote and carried that eider down and spring mattresses were useless innovations after luxurious straw, and that whilst some benighted people might regard us as having been in purgatory, we had been in paradise, and hoped to be there again within twenty-four hours. And the barn, too!
The real Princess of Hans Andersen's story, who passed a miserable night because there was a small bean concealed beneath the twenty eider- down beds on which she slept, might stand for a type of the aristocracy of feeling that took a pride in these ridiculous susceptibilities. The modern sentimentalist works in a coarser material.
The nest is accordingly finished, the eggs are laid, the little ones are born, and next year the harvest of eider down is again collected. Now, as the eider duck never selects steep rocks or aspects to build its nest, but rather sloping and low cliffs near to the sea, the Icelandic hunter can carry on his trade operations without much difficulty.
His body is like that of a man except that his feet are very large and look like sealskin muffs. His clothing is made of the skins of eider ducks and, as their bellies are white and their backs are black, his clothes are spotted all over. He cannot speak, but cries all the time, "Be, be! Be, be!"
Then back he rode over the River Eider into the enemy's land for they had stripped Denmark of all her hard-won possessions south of the ancient border of the kingdom, except Esthland and Rügen and with him went every man who could bear arms in all the nation.
Opposite the armchair, however, in which the count's mother had died a square armchair of formal design and inhospitable padding, which stood by the hearthside the Countess Sabine was seated in a deep and cozy lounge, the red silk upholsteries of which were soft as eider down.
The only other ship here is the French frigate "Artemise," Commodore Dumas, by whom I have been treated with the greatest kindness and civility. On Saturday we went to Vedey, a beautiful little green island where the eider ducks breed, and build nests with the soft under-down plucked from their own bosoms.
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