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it is scarcely fair to the station-masters who
contract with the Government to keep horses in
readiness for travellers. When, however, such
excessive demand does arise—as must usually be
the case on the arrival of the packet, no injury is
done to station-masters, seeing that these outsiders
merely carry off the overflow of tourists, whose
demand would otherwise be very embarrassing.
This may account for the fact that, with one
exception, our irregulars appeared to be on very
good terms with the bonders who own the stations.
The one exception merely amounted to a mild
remonstrance addressed to myself, but not pressed
at all, when the circumstances of our
engage-rnent of these supernumeraries was explained by
Andreas.
In a country like Norway, where the tourist
comes upon the country people just in the midst
of their busiest harvest time, receives from them
so much genuine, though not obsequious, attention
and kindness, and is dealt with so honestly, it is
the duty of every traveller to reciprocate by
avoiding any avoidable breach of customary regulations,
or any course of conduct that maybe unnecessarily
inconvenient to the good people he is visiting.
He should regard himself as their guest, and treat
them with the consideration that is due to a
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