Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen and Published in Twelve stories as Ak, hvor forandret, 1828 As I have already said, I make great leaps in the dance, and that no one can object to, but leaps in telling a story may not please the thoughtful reader. Therefore--with due apologies for the hop, skip, and jump my heart did with my pen--I will now return to the sober and orderly description of the feast at Tyreholm. When the party broke up, the counsellor invited all the gentlemen present to a duck hunt in Svirumgaard lake.