Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Travels through Finland - Chapter XX
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
_ THROUGH FINLAND. 281
This fpecies of {port had not the fame attraction for me as the
fhooting of other birds; we were obliged to pafs the whole night
in the woods ; to liften to the finging of the bird with the invidi-
ous ear of a fpy, to fkulk and fupprefs our very breath, in order
the better to catch the found of his voice; and when at laft we
heard him, it was neceflary we fhould employ all the eraft and
artifice of a traitor, take advantage even of the fentiment of love
in this poor creature, and all this for the bafe purpofe of killing
him by furprife. In the chafe, as in every thing elfe, I love plain
dealing; I love to make the birds fly before me, to purfue them,
and to declare war before I fire upon them. One fingle bird killed
upon the wing is worth ten affaffinated on the branch of a tree.
What contributed {till more to attach us to our refidence at
Uleaborg was, as I have before intimated, the accident of our
meeting here two gentlemen lovers of mufic, one of whom played
the cioloncellos the other the a/fo. Thus, with the affiftance of
Mr. Skidldebrand, my travelling companion, who played the
violin, and myfelf who played the clarinet, we were in condition
to perform a quartetto tolerably well. A quartetto at Uleaborg
was a phenomenon no lefs out of the ordinary courfe of things,
_ than the appearance of the moft aftonifhing meteor. There were
not ten perfons in the town who had ever heard mufic in four
parts; nor probably from its foundation to the day of our arrival,
had a quartetto been ever executed within its bounds. The reader
will eafily conceive the pleafure we derived from the fimplicity of
thofe good people, who looked up to us as the gods of mufic,
Vor pl, Oo as
ok
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
