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TIIE DOVRE FJELD.
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further go. What was to he done? for the hostess, thus
encouraged, had now evidently determined that her
guest should eat the whole, though there was a
good-sized Staffordshire-ware willow-pattern pie-dish full.
Suddenly we hit upon an expedient which our
unknown tongue enabled us to organise and carry out.
It was that the tolk should stand behind the lady’s
chair, so that he could reach the pie-dish over her
shoulder, and while I diverted the attention of the
hostess by asking for something, he hastily, and with
great glee, helped himself to piled-up spoonfuls of
the porridge. Thus every time the good old lady
returned, she found the porridge diminished, and
was delighted with her success ; manifesting lier
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glee by patting her guest on the back, and
exclaiming, "ikke sick! ikke sick!" (not sick! not sick!)
Thus all parties were gratified; especially the tolk,
who was grinning with delight for the rest of the
evening.
Reached the Dovre Fjeld next day. It is a vast
undulating moorland between three and four thousand feet
above the sea level. It has 110 particular claims to the
picturesque, and the absence of great rocky masses
deprives it of any savage grandeur, though it is
sufficiently desolate. The tints of the reindeer moss, or
rather lichen, which abounds, are in many parts very
beautiful; especially where a rounded heap of
earth-covered boulders is overgrown with it. It is dry and
crisp, forming a luxurious mountain couch; its colours
vary from straw colour, through a pale buff, to a bright
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