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day. There were neither violets, pansies,
sunshine, nor cawing rooks to be seen anywhere
near; where pansy banks may have been was
soddened ground ; a Scotch mist enveloped
everything, and the air was miserably cold. Had I
not been intimately acquainted with the author
of the above quotation, and firmly convinced of
his unimpeachable veracity, I should have
regarded his roasting sunbeams, his pansies, rooks,
and aromas as utterly myths, and himself as an
arrant humbug. Such are the perils to which
such authorship is exposed. Had a
vinegar-minded critic travelled over the same ground in
such weather as yesterday’s, what a demolishing
review he might have written!
We drove on to Folkstuen and Domhaas, over
the widely-expanded mossy fjeld, and through a
moving panorama of monotonous drizzle ; then
rested, and dined at Dombaas. This is the station
where in 1856 the kind hostess struggled so
devotedly to feed the sick English lady, and where
I conspired with the lady’s husband and the “ tolk ”
to cheat the hostess into believing in her final
success. f Of course I now endeavoured to
recognize her and speedily did so; not by her features,
but by her pertinacious efforts to make us eat
more than we could possibly digest.
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