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TRONDHJEM.
71
one else, and repeats, " Tak for mad "—" Thanks for
food." There were sixteen at dinner, and as every one
shook hands with fifteen, and repeated " Tak for mad "
fifteen times, there were 16 x 15 = 240 repetitions of
" Tak for mad," and 120 graspings of hands.
There was a great display of the Beau Brummel
heaver hats to-day, among the men coming from church.
They wear frock-coats and hats on Sundays, and
dress-coats during the week. Both men and women dress
very neatly on all occasions, and the material seems
good and substantial home-spun woollen cloth. The
men wear dark gray’ and black, the working-dress
being in fact very nearly what we should call evening
costume, with the addition of a red nightcap.
I stopped at Oust, a station which has some amount of
hotel pretensions, where I had a good supper and bed.
The road now ascends the hills, and commands fine
views of the city and fiord of Trondhjem. The city
is approached by a line of wooden warehouses very
much like the Noah’s-ark toys of our childhood made
on a large scale: they are close to the water’s edge,
and appear ready to float off should the water rise.
The streets of Trondhjem are wide and clean, with
water tanks at the corners, and only a small number of
shops, but those very good. It is the universal custom
here, as in Christiania, to uncover on entering a shop,
and continue so while making a purchase. The idea
of treating a shopman as an inferior does not appear
to be entertained by any class in Norway. The people
here are nearly all well dressed, the ladies very gaily,
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