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munificence, or to conciliate the proprietor by
swelling the bill.
In some English hotels the guest wdio drinks
no wine is barely treated with civility. I saw one
bill of an Edinburgh hotel, where, appended to
each charge for dinner, was an item “ In lieu of
wine, Is. 6c?.,” and I grieve to say that the victim
who showed it me was weak enough to pay it,
although he was charged four shillings and
sixpence for his beefsteak dinner, and one shilling for
his bottle of ale.
I kept my eyes wide open all through this trip, in
order to learn whether the practice of “ sticking it
on ” in the wine, and measuring the moral status
of the guest by the quantity of wine he swallows
or pays for, has yet found its way into Norway,
and have great pleasure in stating that it has not.
I sincerely hope that it never will.
By treating this custom as one “ more honoured
in the breach than the observance,’’ the Norwegians
will gain in the long run, for however unwilling
weak-minded people may be to admit it, a vast
number, I may say a great majority of those who
would otherwise be hotel guests, keep away from
such places altogether on this account. They
refuse to pay five shillings for an eighteenpenny
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