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40 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
to form a very fair idea of the flavour of fladbröd ; only
the fladbröd is rather more crisp and a little less
resinous. It is made into circular discs from 18 inches
to 2 feet in diameter; and a hungry man, who is fond
of it, can consume several square yards at a meal.
The view from the upper windows of the Oden station
is most magnificent. The station is a large and good one,
but rather embarrassing to an Englishman who brings
"iis hotel notions with him, for there are no bells, no
waiters, no servants. Like such stations generally, it is
composed of several wooden buildings : the dining-room
is one of these, and the kitchen is over the way; therefore
if you want food or drink, you walk across the road and
fetch it. You may hammer on the table if you please,
but having the whole building to vourself, nobody hears
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you, or if any of the natives do they take no notice, for
they suppose that you are playing a tune for your own
amusement. And yet they are not uncivil—no, nor
inattentive; they appear to have a theory that people
with arms and legs can help themselves, and they allow
them to do so.
Englishmen are objects of great wonderment to the
Norwegians. The steward of the steamer told me of an
English lady who has a farm hereabouts, who rides
barebacked horses, and cuts her own timber in a silk gown;
and of a Sir Something Somebody, who hired a special
steam-packet in order to avoid meeting five people he
had travelled with; also of another Englishman who for
some years past has lived in a lonely hut with no other
associate than an old woman, his housekeeper; and who
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