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tion to sensible men, instead of being stock subjects
of ridicule and contempt, as they are at present.
But I must not return from this rather extended
digression without disposing of the stock stupidity
which is commonly used as an argument, or rather
as a lame excuse, for the fluctuations of fashion
and extravagances of dress; that “ it is good for
trade.” Drunkenness is good for trade in the
same manner; war is good for the gun trade and
the saltpetre business, murder is good for the
hangman’s trade, arson gives employment to
builders, and so on; there is no folly, no vice,
no crime that may not be excused by this pitiful
subterfuge, so long as people can be found who
are blind enough to be unable to see that what is
expended upon the millinery, the drink, the guns,
the saltpetre, the hangmans wages, the building
of burnt houses, &c., must be withdrawn from
some other application that would equally benefit
some more legitimate and more productive or
beneficial industrv.
August IDA.—Our drive from the railway
station to the charming little station of Gfarlid,
where we slept last night and breakfasted this
morning, was not a fair sample of Norwegian
travelling, the station-master having a curious
collection of vehicles of all nationalities; gigs,
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