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316 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
found, as usual, that there was nobody at home, but
saw some people in the distance, and therefore went in
at the open door, and sat down till they came.
The housemen and women came first, then the
master; all of them incredibly dirty—dirty as Greeks,
and ornamented with a profusion of silver brooches
and other silver and gilded silver trinkets. The
master, as usual in the Tellemark, was the dirtiest,
and Avore the greatest amount of jeAvellery. On
his shirt front were three huge circular brooches,
that touched each other, for want of space betAveen
them; the neck AA’as fastened witli silver shirt-links,
Avitli chains hanging from them. There were three
rows of silver buttons on his immeasurably short
waistcoat, and three rows more on the sides of each
knee, and all were brightly polished; but his
stockings Avere full of holes, and the garments upon Avhich
the silver Avas displayed Avere miserably ragged. It
appears here to be the general custom to wash and
shaA’e once a week, so that the bristles and the dirt
accumulate on their faces simultaneously, and are both
pared off Avitli a razor 011 Sunday mornings: it
being-Friday evening, and hot Aveather, these decorations had
nearly reached their weekly maximum.
My supper consisted of dirty fladbröd, good butter,
and sour milk; this last the master brought me in
a boAA’l, quite filled: he held the boAA’l Avitli one hand,
and his thumb aa7as immersed in the sour milk, which
exercised its solvent powers upon the film of dirt
that overlaid his skin, so that by the time he placed
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