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A DOMESTIC CONCERT.
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ornament for the table, in place of an electro-platecl
epergne; the fabric to he pulled down after dinner,
and the branches handed round among the guests to
pluck what they desire. If I may draw any conclusion
from the condition of the cherry-trees hereabouts, they
suffer no injury from this mode of gathering the fruit,
which seems to be customary; for I have never seen
cherry-trees so abundantly laden with fruit as those
in the garden belonging to this inn: most fruit-trees
require lopping and pruning, and this appears a very
natural and desirable way of doing it.
In the evening there was much company at the hotel,
and some music; the instrument, one of the
ornaments of the chief drawing-room, being a jingle-jangle
organ, such as the Italian boys carry about our streets:
the handle was turned by the host, and the company
assembled to hear it were delighted with the concert.
The Englishmen who eclipsed me by taking a
deck-passage on the Constitutions, arrived here; but I had
the advantage of them, for they were too late for the
concert, while I had the privilege of hearing it all
through. This is a favourite station with yachting
parties, of which there are several every year from
England.
The river of the Justedal, the Storelv, brings down
an immense quantity of glacier-worn debris, which,
being-deposited at its mouth, has made a fertile nook
hereabouts : the deposition is going on rapidly. I found,
when bathing, an extensive subaqueous plain, stretching
right across this branch of the fiord; and in the course
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