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64 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
able liours, but it is not the case here ; I was served with
as much alacrity and good-will as though I had arrived
at the usual time.
All these stations are farmhouses, composed of several
wooden buildings; and it is sometimes a perplexing
task to find out which is intended for travellers. One is
usually a kitchen, another a lodging-house for peasants ;
some are filled with hay, others are furnished for the
accommodation of cows, &c., while externally there is
but little difference between them. In this case I found
the doors of all unfastened, and walked into two or three
before finding anybody. I should have helped myself
to a bed I found in one of the buildings, but being
intolerably thirsty, and unable to find the well or any vessel
containing water, was compelled to awaken the
establishment, which could only be done by dint of a terrible
amount of rapping and rattling.
The main object of thus building a farm in detached
fragments is that, in case of fire, the whole may not be
destroyed: a wise precaution with such building materials.
According to Mr. Laing, the cost of a house, " with two
rooms below and two above, does not usually exceed
fifty dollars, wood and workmanship included."* They
are built in manner before described, p. 3.
The road beyond the station commands fine views
of the valley, a deep ravine thickly wooded with
fir-trees, and the river dotted with pine-covered islands.
There are many indications of glacier action hereabouts
* "Residence in Norway in the Years 1834-35-36:" by Samuel
Laing, p. 29.
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