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s he said to attending church service, which was conducted under considerable difficulties, members of the congregation occasionally shooting out of the saloon like Zazel out of her cannon,

eat deal of rain, and the storm clouds and mist were still hovering abo

ith the luggage. Now there was a young Englishman on board, very talkative, extremely sociable, remarkably kind-hearted, and overflowing with the

d at which he had come from the quay, and the Skipper had the gratification of witnessing his discomfiture and listening to

one who has once tried the 'Victoria' will go there again: the ma

m which bedrooms and passages open, very much like that historical hos

of wood, and the building is not of recent date, for now no hou

ady for the little groups who will assemble at them after dinner for the cup of coffee and glass of cognac which form an indispensable part of a Norwegian dinner. The dinner itself is, during the summer months, always served in a large oblong tent in the same courtyar

ut perhaps he is right not to hurry, for the hare does not appear to be taking any measures for her safety, but sits calmly nibbling the deeply dyed moss which it were vain to inform her is not good to eat. But there are other birds which we know are stuffed, for we helped to stuff them, and these are the sparrows, which come gaily flying in at the open side of the smoking balcony; hopping on the chairs and tables, pecking at the crumbs on your plate, and behaving generally in that peculiarly ins

like a good English one, except the coffee, which is not at all like English coffee, being perfectly delicious; b

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his watch-chain the centre of a semicircle, and thus entirely dispensing with that creaking-booted fidget, the waiter. Such an arrangement cannot fail to coax the most delicate appetite. There is no coarse pièce de résistance; no vast joint to disgust you; but like

of the North Sea, or to the weather-beaten sportsman returning straight from the bleak snow-fields of the interior

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, as the best variety that can be got up country is extremely nasty; the worst is unutterably vile, though it is quite possible to acquire almost a liking for the peculiarities of the better kind

pete, so we will not attempt to describe the town, since, though our knowledge of all the grocers' shops is volumin

e; and here suddenly, to the intense surprise of Esau, the Skipper broke forth into a long harangue in Norse, concluding with an extremely neat peroration. The shopkeeper listened with respectful admiration, and then said, 'No, this is a stationer's shop, we do not keep it.' Then Esau gave way to irreverent laughter, and the s

ers since our arrival, especially to the Norwegians, who have all a sort of natural affinity with any kind of boat, and seem very much pleased with

the bows of the Skipper's craft could mean, and spelling it over very slowly and carefully aloud. When we came away, one of th