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carefully tucked up snow-white beds, and with the
melancholy air of an injured martyr, which
admirably suited his vinegar visage, asked me why
we refused to stop in his house.
On reaching Christiania I told Mr. Bennett of
these new bedrooms, in order that this knight
of the rueful countenance might have the credit
due to his efforts, and then found that Bennett
already had made a note to this effect, founded on
the report of a previous tourist.
It is recorded that an Englishman was assaulted
lEl
here, and had to apply to the Lensmand or
police-officer of the district. Mr. Bennett has the
following note* in reference to this :
“ An English gentleman, who knows the
neighbourhood well, remarks, ‘ If an Englishman was
assaulted at Reien or anywhere else (as happened
at Fryderlund last year, 1875), he probably had
his own offensive manners to thank for it. The
man at Reien happens to be a surly kind of fellow,
but Englishmen ought to understand that, as a
rule, station holders are independent yeomen, who
will not stand being ordered about with an
Englishman’s insolent assumption of superiority over
all the rest of the world.’ ”
August 29th.—A new road commences at a
* * Handbook for 1876,’ p. 74.
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