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280 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
tity were in demand. From what I have seen, with
the wooden pestle and mortar, the newly-roasted coffee
may he pounded as quickly and effectually as it can
he ground in a small coffee-mill; and if kept exclusively
for this purpose, it would he a valuable addition to the
domestic furniture of a cottage. One of these, with a
roaster, a pound or two of coffee berries, and a lesson
in the use of them, would be a most suitable marriage
present to the bride of an agricultural labourer; for by
their judicious use she might win her husband from
the beer-shop, and thus avert the domestic miseries so
commonly associated with it.
The wooden walls and ceiling of the room in which I
had this meal were curiously decorated; being painted
all over with figures of ovals within ovals, considerably
eccentric, reminding me of diagrams of the microscopic
structure of starch granules.
After a few hours’ sleep, and a repetition of the meal
just described, I started at two in the afternoon, and
walked on by a good road to Nordgaard. On the way
I was hailed by a man 011 the other side of a hedge, to
know if I had seen two horses on the fjeld. On
finding me to be an Englishman, he spoke to me in good
English, and told me that long ago he emigrated to
America, and lived there for sixteen years ; but the
desire to see his " Gammle Norge" again had brought
him back, and finding his daughter married, with a
farm and family about her, he was persuaded to remain
and end his days there. I asked him which he liked
the best, America or Norway? He said that he liked
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