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at imposition were illusions, due to the traveller’s
ignorance. This idea was confirmed at every
successive stage of our progress over the same
ground that the grumbling traveller had
previously passed, as the tilsegelse was there demanded
in a peculiar and very unusual tone of defiant
insistance; and it was demanded in advance, with
an evident determination that unless it was paid,
the horses and carrioles ordered by forbud, and
awaiting somewhere hard by, would not be
brought forward. When they found that I paid
it without hesitation, and added a small trifle as
“drikke penge,” their aspect changed, and all
was friendship and eagerness to serve us. The
sore place left by the stupidity of the previous
tourist, was as evident as though it had been a
sabre cut, but it was healed at once by an
expression of good-will, and the few farthings of drikke
penge (drink money).
Even an experienced tourist may be mistaken,
unless very careful. Thus at Haugen, the second
station from Hellesylt, I thought the station-master
was cheating me, but on reference to the dagbog
I found that this station, wretched as it is, has the
legal status ot a “ fast ” station, quite exceptional
hereabouts, and the legal charge for each horse is
1| mark per mile, instead of 1 mark as from slow
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