Farum

At the Straw Market a fat, greasy, grinning peasant promised to take me in his cart as far as the little town of Farum, where I was to stay with the schoolmaster.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

But two years after this, when I was feeling my first schoolboy affection for an eleven-year-old girl, she silenced me at a children's ball with the scoffing remark: “Ah! it was you who let Henrietta K. thrash you under the May-tree at Farum.”

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

He explained to me that he could not very well drive me any farther, so must put me down; he was not going to Farum himself at all.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

But a peat cart was coming along the road yonder, the driver of which was going to Farum, and he transferred me, poor defenceless child as I was, to the other conveyance.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

Where Farum was, I did not know and did not care, but it was a new world.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

But a peat cart was coming along the road yonder, the driver of which was going to Farum, and he transferred me, poor defenceless child as I was, to the other conveyance.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

Where Farum was, I did not know and did not care, but it was a new world.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

He explained to me that he could not very well drive me any farther, so must put me down; he was not going to Farum himself at all.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

But two years after this, when I was feeling my first schoolboy affection for an eleven-year-old girl, she silenced me at a children's ball with the scoffing remark: "Ah! it was you who let Henrietta K. thrash you under the May-tree at Farum."

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki celebrates after winning of the women's single final ofthe e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open 2010 tennis tournament in Farum, Denmark on August 8,

Winnipeg Sun 2010