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blushingly, but after a little while, when I made
grotesque signs expressive of enjoyment of good
things, they became quite sociable, and grinned
heartily in full appreciation of my small
pantomimic joke. Whenever I met them afterwards
they saluted me with a grin of recognition, just as
little children do to whom one has sung a comic
song. The more I see of these little people, the
more they appeal to my philoprogenitiveness.
Would they were cleaner!
In the afternoon we walked to the summit of
the island, where a Belvedere, erected for the king
when he visited Tromsö, serves as a pleasant
resting place, and commands a good general view of
the many branching fjords and dark snow-streaked
mountains around. We were much surprised at
the luxuriance of the vegetation. The
ornamental trees, which were planted around the
Belvedere only a few years ago, have grown so
tall that they hide the view to the northward.
On the hill slopes are many pretty wooden villas,
of modest dimensions, with ornamental gardens
and croquet grounds carefully laid with gravel
instead of grass. They do not mow their lawns
here; all the grass of the garden grass-plots is full
grown. I can easily understand this; for where
the ground is snow covered during eight or nine
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