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At Ned re Yasenden we were well provided.
The large wooden room has one of those admirable
Swedish stoves surmounted by an elaborate series
of arched cast-iron flues, by means of which the
heat of the fire which in England is devoted to
warming the clouds, is made available for human
comfort. There was no fire there wdien we
arrived, and the room, like ourselves, was very cold,
but a few handfuls of pine wood burning in this
stove radiated more warmth into the room in ten
minutes than could have been obtained in two
hours by means of the barbarous cage of iron bars
which in England we bury in a hole in the wall,
in order to prevent useful radiation ; and use for
the purpose of wasting coal, manufacturing
chilblains, and rendering any rational system of
effective ventilation impossible.
We were well satisfied with our quarters here,
although there was no gilded drawing-room nor
any mahogany furniture. The station is an
old-fashioned unsophisticated deal board Norwegian
farmhouse of the best class—everything clean
and genuine, the food excellent, though
unpretending ; and above all, richly decorated by that
simple welcome which displays itself in the
obviously sincere desire to minister to one’s comfort,
without striving for additional items to swell the
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