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At Stuen station we had a foretaste of
subsequent experience in the form of wretched vehicles.
The station is small and ill provided; it was
growing late and its best contrivances were out.
Thus we were compelled to take the residue,
some of which were not carrioles nor describable
by any accepted noun substantive. They nearly
resembled the tray upon wheels so popular with
London costermongers, but above the tray was
a sort of wooden chair fixed to the middle of a
horizontal wooden bar, the ends of which were
nailed to uprights rising from the sides of the
tray. The limited elasticity of this represented
the springs of the vehicle. The reins were of
cordage and appeared like superannuated
clotheslines. This is the usual structure of the “ribbons”
in rural Norway. Up to this point all had
laughed at the queer harness and vehicles, and
on surveying our cavalcade we wished it were
possible to be bodily transferred with our
equipages to the drive at Fop’s Alley in Hyde Park;
at Stuen it became serious, and some of the ladies
were driven to protest, but there was no help for us.
We had the best obtainable, and therefore drove
as dashingly as possible to Aune station. It was
rather trying to young ladies accustomed to
cushioned carriages, drawn by well-matched high-
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