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other chief lions of Christiania, not forgetting a
visit and revisit to Mr. Bennett, whose bazaar of
national productions vigorously aroused the long
dormant shopping propensities of the ladies.
Mr. Bennett told me that my first pedestrian
wanderings, without guide or companion, over
some of the wildest parts of Norway, are regarded
as very adventurous exploits by most Norwegian
tourists ; but in his opinion this journey with six
ladies, all carried through without mishap or any
serious inconvenience, entirely eclipses the
knapsack tour. When he learned that durinG* the last
four weeks we had driven about two hundred and
fifty strange horses and an equal number of strange
vehicles, the nature of which and their appliances
he well understands, and had not broken a single
shaft, or lost a wheel, or grazed a knee, or crashed
against a boulder, or had any spill of any kind, his
surprise, based upon much experience and many
doleful stories of tourist carriole adventures, was
still greater.
My own theory of our exemption from the
customary mishaps of carriole travelling is that the
unostentatious—the diffident and concealed, but
genuine politeness and true gallantry of the
Norwegian character was the invisible guardian that
followed us throughout, and warded every avoid-
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