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sufficient money for the perpetration of this
popular process of moral suicide.
We book to Drammen, and start in one of those
open second-class carriages that we found so
enjoyable between Trondhjem and Stören, but before
proceeding far were glad to make our escape into
a first-class carriage. This expulsion was due to
the wretched Norwegian habit of spitting, which
had been a source of considerable annoyance at
many other parts of our journey, but reached its
climax here. American spitting may be as
detestable as commonly represented, but the Americans
are good marksmen. The Norwegians, although
their nasal and guttural prelude is sufficiently
pretentious to inaugurate a mighty effort, are miserably
unskilful and random, and thus in a crowded
railway carriage they may become an intolerable
nuisance, especially to ladies.
This being Sunday, and the railway running
.through the midst of the mining and
timberloading district, where, even in Norway, a
considerable population of “ roughs ” have collected,
and where hard drinking is exceptionally
prevalent, our fellow passengers in the second-class
carriage were very different from the simple but
dignified bonder and his housemen of agricultural
Norway.
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