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"Hop!" said then Erik, His heel upward flinging; The beams fell to ringing, The walls gave a shriek. "Stop!" shouted Elling, His collar then grasping, And held him up, gasping: "Why, you're far too weak!" "Hey!" spoke up Rasmus, Fair Randi then seizing; "Come, give without teasing That kiss. Oh! you know!"
There was no sign-post to direct them, and the people in the inn had not told them which of the two roads to take. 'What's to be done now? said Rasmus. 'I think we had better have stayed at the inn. 'There's no harm done, said Niels. 'The night is warm, and we can wait here till morning. One of us will keep watch till midnight, and then waken the other.
One day, a little before sunset, they came to an inn which lay at the edge of a forest. 'We had better stay here for the night, said Rasmus. 'What an idea! said Niels, who was growing impatient at the slow progress they were making. 'We can't travel by day for the heat, and we remain where we are all night. It will be long enough before we get to Rome if we go on at this rate.
Nevertheless, he, a foreigner, who had barely mastered the language, presented himself after six months before he had attended all the lectures, that is, for the examination in philosophy and passed it with Distinction in all three subjects; indeed, Rasmus Nielsen, who examined him in Propaedeutics, was so delighted at the foreigner's shrewd and ready answers that he gave him Specially excellent, a mark which did not exist.
Though Denmark is a small kingdom containing scarcely three million people, yet it has produced many eminent men of science, art, and literature. The names of Hans Christian Andersen, Rasmus Rask, the philologist, Oersted, the discoverer of electro-magnetism, Forchhammer, the chemist, and Eschricht, the physiologist, occur to us in this connection.
Consequently it did not specially take from my feeling of having attained a measure of scientific insight, when I learnt what I had not known at first that my teachers, Hans Broechner, as well as Rasmus Nielsen, were agreed not to remain satisfied with the conclusions of the German philosopher, had "got beyond Hegel."
Rasmus chose to take the first watch, and the others lay down to sleep. It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and foxes and other animals moving about among the rustling leaves. After the moon rose he could see them occasionally, and when a big stag came quite close to him he got hold of Niels' gun and shot it. Niels was wakened by the report. 'What's that? he said.
Rasmus was unwilling to go on, but the two old people sided with Niels, who said, 'The nights aren't dark, and the moon will soon be up. We can ask at the inn here, and find out which way we ought to take. So they held on for some time, but at last they came to a small opening in the forest, and here they found that the road split in two.
This discouraged the old people so much that they gave up all thought of finishing the journey, and only wished to get back to Denmark as quickly as they could. What with the winter and bad roads they took longer to return than they had taken to go, but in the end they found themselves in sight of the forest where they had slept before. 'What's this? said Rasmus.
Rasmus Nielsen was the only one of the professors who did not entertain me with the discussion of my future academic prospects; but he it was who gave me the highest praise: "According to our unanimous opinions," said he, "you are the foremost of all the young men."
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