Chapter 64
The Old Bachelor's NightcapTHERE is a street in Copenhagen with a very strange name.
It is called "Hysken" street. Where the name came from, and what it
means is very uncertain. It is said to be German, but that is
unjust to the Germans, for it would then be called "Hauschen," not
"Hysken." "Hauschen," means a little house; and for many years it
consisted only of a few small houses, which were scarcely larger
than the wooden booths we see in the market-places at fair time.
They were perhaps a little higher, and had windows; but the panes
consisted of horn or bladder-skins, for glass was then too dear to
have glazed windows in every house. This was a long time ago, so
long indeed that our grandfathers, and even great-grandfathers,
would speak of those days as "olden t
