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husband plucked them out of her hand, and snipped ofl 

 the ends of his beard. 



Here, the huts being dirty, we picnicked on the green- 

 sward. We had brought tea and biscuit with us, and the 

 natives supplied us with some thick sour milk with half 

 an inch of sour cream on it a dish which is common all 

 over Norway, and is much relished by the people as well 

 ap by many of their visitors. 



This disposed of, we set out some to fish, and others 

 to shoot. I went off alone with my gun. Ptarmigan, in 

 summer plumage, which is brown, with pure white 

 feathers intermixed, were numerous, but wild. They 

 were just tame enough to lead me on in an excited and 

 hopeful state of mind for several hours, regardless of the 

 flight of time. 



At last I became tired, and having bagged four or five 

 birds I returned to the boat, where I found my comrades. 

 One of them chanced to have a watch, and from him I 

 learned that it was just two o'clock in the morning! so that 

 I had actually been shooting all night by daylight ; and 

 the sun had set and risen again without my being aware of 

 the fact. We did not get back to the yacht till eiglrt 

 o'clock A.M., when we found the crew just sitting down 

 to a breakfast of oatmeal porridge. Some of us having 

 refreshed ourselves with a dip in the sea, took a plate of 

 this. Then we went to bed, and rose again at six o'clock 

 that evening to breakfast. 



During one of my solitary rambles with the gun, I had 

 the good fortune to shoot a magnificent eagle. I say 



