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A LUTHERAN SABBATH.
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and thinly scattered farms, and that I was now in the
midst of a dense population and much business. Most of
the company consisted of working men in their Sunday
clothes, in which guise they look singularly like
Scotchmen under similar circumstances. Like Scotchmen on
Sunday, they dress all in black; like Scotch artizans
on Sunday, they seem oppressed with a consciousness
of being in full dress, and move about in a bashful,
uneasy manner; and like Scotchmen, they can evidently
take a great deal of ale without inconvenience ; but
they are unlike Scotchmen in Scotland on Sunday, in
taking their Sunday amusements openly and without
fear of the folk. Luther’s notions of the Sabbath are
fully carried out here; for while the people scrupulously
abstain from following their daily labour, they make the
Sunday a bright and cheerful holiday—going to church
in the morning, taking country walks in the afternoon,
and singing and dancing in the evening.
I had a dinner of broth and mutton, the broth
prepared with barley precisely after the manner of
Scotch broth, and then walked on to Drammen,
meeting many people on the way, some on foot, others in
carrioles and gigs, many fishing on the banks of the
river, and several carrying guns; these, and the
continual banging that I heard in the fields around, showed
that shooting is a favourite sport in this neighbourhood.
Among other provisions for amusement wrere some
" ol vogns," or ale waggons, carts built for the purpose
of carrying bottles of ale, and retailing them on the
wayside. The two that I passed were besieged by
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