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the most ambitious in this matter of carriole
driving, had never driven a horse before. I knew
from previous experience that school-girls out on
a holiday are not the most cautious of drivers, |
and had not yet discovered that element of safety
described above as the third feature of the
carriole.
We began badly by leaving one box behind
at Stören, but did better afterwards. There are
no luggage porters, no “ boots ” at these
farmhouse lodgings, these “ stations ” in Norway.
The traveller must help himself, and when there
is a party of seven with boxes, hand bags, shawls,
umbrellas, &c., all to be shifted at every stage,
the unstrapping and restrapping and taking stock
is such a business that an occasional missing of
some luggage item is rather to be regarded as a
necessary than an accidental incident. When
such a thing happens, an express, in the shape I
of a boy driving back one of the carrioles, soon
restores it, if it has not been discovered and sent
on already. The perfect honesty of the peoplo
removes the larger half of these difficulties.
We drove over an admirable road through
the open valley to Bjerkager station, where on
my previous journey I had so much trouble in
finding the human elements of the establishment
and awakening them. It has, like most of the
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