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it rushed past our door at such a pace that no boat could stem it; and as far as we could see up the reach it came down in an equally swift torrent, so that all day and all night there was a swilling, rushing sound very pleasant to hear, and creating a sensation of coolness in warm weather. Esau considered it just the beau ideal of a trout stream, for any fish hooked in it gave a lot

ox, and they all 'wondered much at that;' then we talked to them for a brief space, chiefly out of 'Bennett's Phrase Book,' and considered the interview at an end, but they would not go, and remained silently staring at all our movements. So at last we ignored their presence altogether, which we have found the most effectual way of getting rid of a Norwegian peasant, and they gradually departed one by one t

ut we took advantage of their arrival to make arrangements with one of them to bring three ponie

des; for the Skipper had become inflamed by a wish

n everything for hay except the stones. The Skipper came back with a very pretty bag of fish; he had been up to the fall, and thought it quite deserved all Esau's commendation; and his opinion is worth more because he has seen many of the great American falls and other stock sights of the world. It is not marked on the Ordnance map; there is no path to it, or near it, but you come on it suddenly by following the river up through t

loved fall again, and try to sketch it. He came back in a bad temper, saying that he thought Ruysdael and Turner could make something of it-the former to do the water, and the latter the spray, mist, rainbows,

ntended to cruise up the Slangen and fish Slangen Lake, but we found that it would be impossible to continue our journey from the further end o

y the beauty of our waterfall, the volume of which has doubtless

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s, assisted by two or three men who had come to help our horses and sleighs on the journey. We had terrible difficulty in getting the

ment, who was apparently a professional fool, by the inordinate laughter which his every action caused; then some more women, and a smaller pony and sleigh, with the other canoe and all the rest of the luggage excepting one bag; lastly, another man leading an extremely small pony and sleigh with absolutely nothing on it, th

little ponies insisted on stopping to rest every hundred ya

loured carpet of berry-bearing plants, and the delicious odours with which a Norwegian forest in summer always abounds. In a fir tree here Esau came upon a family of cole titmice, and another of creepers, all very busy swinging themselves about, and creeping up and down the tree in search of dinner. They appeared to take a certain amount of interest in his proceedings, but showed no fear, and after watching

our Lord passed by leaning on St. Peter. She did not know it was our Lord and His apostle, for they looked like two poor men who were travellin

more than you want;" so she pinched off a smaller piece and rolled it out as before, but the smaller piece filled up the trough just as the other had done, and Gertrude put it asi

ft her to divide all her dough into little bits, and to roll it out into great loaves. "I cannot give y

lessing to you. I will try you now with the blessing of poverty; you shall from henceforth seek your food day by day, and always between the wood and the bark" (alluding to the custom of mixing the inner rind of the birch with their rye-mea

om that time forward she and her descendants have all the year round sought their food between the wood and the bark; but the feathers of th

, for she is always under the Lord's protect

e fact remains that the bird is never harm

wear by, or at-now lost itself altogether. The men had been complaining that it was a 'dole vei' soon after the start, now they said it was 'schlamm'-a very expressive word; and Esau agreed with them, and said it was 'damm schlamm,' which does not sound like proper Norsk; but it was such heart-rending work to see our beloved canoes bumping and jolting along, every mom

t after crossing it we had some trouble in finding Fly S?ter, and might perhaps have perished miserably like the Babes in the wood, had we not opportunely met a medi?val fisherman in a red night-cap,

ldren; but there were some occasional visitors here to-night in the shape of ourselves, our three men, the medi?val angler, and another traveller, twelve altoget

ness is really troublesome; they insist on going where they like, and foll

t Hesperus, ite capell?

he evening! Get out,

happy. Our men and sleighs did not arrive till 10 P.M., at which time a most glorious sunset was going on, so that we could not attend to them at once. The sky, at first blue and yellow, gradually deepened into purple and orange, and finally the most brilliant red and