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50 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
issue from the foot of glaciers, and is deposited as soon
as the torrent meets with a quiet spreading place below.
Shells are not likely to occur in such a deposit, the
waters being too newly thawed and cold to suit that
kind of animal life.
Stopping at the new station of Dombaas, I met
an English lady and gentleman with a " tolJc," or
interpreter. The hostess was the perfect embodiment of
womanly goodness: just the sort of woman that every
man must instinctively liken to his own mother.
The English lady was in delicate health, and had
but a small appetite. This was desolation to the soul
of our good hostess, who had exhausted nearly all the
resources of Norwegian cookery, and was almost
brokenhearted at finding that her fair guest did not consume
every dish. She evidently supposed that the lady
was dissatisfied with the delicacies slie had prepared,
and that the plea of illness was only an excuse.
We were all amused and concerned at the good woman’s
anxiety; but the most amused of all was the tolk, for
he devoured all the nice things the lady and her
husband were unable to grapple with. At last, came
the crowning effort of the kitchen; some porridge
made of fine meal, boiled in milk, coated with sugar,
and over that a pool of oily butter, all boiling hot.
This was brought in triumphantly; and I foresaw
plainly that if this failed, the good woman would have
110 sleep that night. The fair patient, with the amiability
of a woman, and the self-denial of a martyr, ate two
or three little spoonfuls; but human nature could 110
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