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reached the landing place, Förde (in Bredhjem),
and there we found the carrioles ordered by our
forbud messenger all awaiting us. They had been
waiting some hours, as the storm had kept us long
beyond our appointed time. In such cases “
ventepenge,” or waiting money, must be paid, at a rate
fixed by law. The regulation allows one hour for
waiting without payment of ventepenge, but after
this the charge for each horse or boatman is equal
to that for a quarter of a mile of posting for every
half hour. The postmaster is not bound to wait
more than two hours and a half. When this is
exceeded and the traveller afterwards arrives, he
must pay the ventepenge for the horses that
waited, and tilsegelse for fetching them back.
As the rain was still pouring, we “ accepted the
situation,” and drove through it. We were
moderately wet on starting for this stage, but the
aspects of exposure being now changed, as we sat
in the curious vehicles (there are few carrioles
hereabouts), an hours drive was sufficient to
render the drenching quite complete, and uniform
on all sides.
Getting wet is a great deal worse than being wet.
Those who have not walked or driven steadily on
from morning till night through continuous rain
may not understand this, and therefore I will
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