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212 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
or sermons can substitute; for moral training must be
a training in deed and feeling: mere ethics only inform
the intellect.
On arriving at Mork I found that the pastor’s
encomium on the " good people " was well merited: the
hostess was overflowing with goodness. The arrival of
a guest threw her into a state of excitement quite
unusual among Norwegians; slie brought out a vast array
of pans, containing cream, soft cheese, milk and
porridge, piles of fladbröd and crisp flour cake; a ham,
that seemed to have been smoked for years, was
unhooked from the rafters, eggs were set a frying, and the
coffee-berries turned out and roasted forthwith.
She was one of those really kind women who love to
see people eat, who sincerely believe in the helplessness
of man, and that he must necessarily perish unless a
woman is near to minister to his comforts; and she was
full of sympathy for a solitary wanderer whose mother
was so far away. She made many inquiries, all of
which I answered as fully as my Norsk allowed; then
she showed me the big box containing her Sunday
clothes and wedding dress, and a great stock of
domestic apparatus. Her name, " Thora Olsdatter," and
her husband’s, or father’s, " Live Olsen," was written
upon it in gay letters, and the inscription bordered with
brightly painted flowers. All the panels of the room
doors were also painted with vases bearing bright
flowers, in Which the primary colours decidedly
prevailed.
The big box, emblazoned with the family name, is a
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