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FAMILY CLOTHES-BOX.
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common and prominent object of Norwegian farmhouse
furniture. It is usually eight or ten feet long, about
three feet wide, and two feet high, and the treasures it
contains are most miscellaneous. Suspended from the
lid are caps and ribbons, a large watch, and other
trinkets; at the bottom is a store of neatly folded
bedclothes, and towels, table-cloths, &c. There are side
shelves and fittings for shoes and men’s clothes,
coffee-berries and pepper, and the very few other exotic
luxuries used in a Norwegian household.
I am now becoming reconciled to sheepskin
coverlids : when they are perfectly clean, as the one I have
here, they are most luxurious; the soft wool in its
natural state of curliness and elasticity touching the skin
more tenderly than any woven fabric.
I had much difficulty in pressing upon the good
Thora Olsdatter any payment. She considered the
steel pens and paper of needles I had given her to be
an equivalent for the board and lodging, and when I
explained that they had nothing at all to do with it, she
refused to take more than one mark and a half.
My next day’s walk was an ascent to the Sota and
Mysybytta saeters. The track passes up a wild valley,
where the walking; over loose stones with water between
reduces one’s best pace to about two miles per hour.
The Lia Vand is a fine specimen of a wild mountain
lake. Beyond this lake the track passes over an ancient
glacier moraine of great extent and unmistakeable
character. The river struggles among its boulders, and
at other parts slides smoothly over the grooved and
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