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274 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
Certainly a double-refined literary university
education is a most unfit preparation for a clergyman who is
to be placed in such a position as this. A short
apprenticeship to a few useful trades, such as carpentering,
cooperage, shoemaking, and above all, a knowledge of
medicine and surgery, would be in every respect better
than Greek, Latin, metaphysics, mathematics, and
controversial theology. A good knowledge of the
applicable scientific improvements in agriculture would be
an immense boon; and as all the pastors are farmers,
their farms might thus be made models for the district,
and through them any amount of improvement could
be introduced.
I tried again at the house of Robert: and the
shoe-maker, after some search, found a key which opened a
room in which stood a bed. He also supplied me with
some raw ham and fladbröd. I had by this time become
independent of cooking, and could heartily enjoy a meal
of raw ham and bruised oats in the form of fladbröd.
The kind man with the wooden shoes accompanied
me throughout my search, and did not leave me until I
was fairly housed; yet I had great difficulty in inducing
him to accept a small payment in return.
The next morning I started to cross the Haukelid
Fjeld into the Tellemark. The distance is six
Norwegian miles; which are rather more than seven English
miles in length. Forty-three miles over wild mountains
is fully equal to sixty on ordinary roads; and therefore
I allowed a day and night for the journey. There is
a clearly marked track 011 the map, but 110 saeter, or
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