28 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



of the river icy cold. The weather was hot, so hot that I 

 took a plunge during the morning into a lake from which 

 the river flows ; but a very few strokes satisfied me. In 

 the middle of the day, when we met together for lunch, 

 my basket would not hold another fish, and I had left my 

 large ones behind. In all I had eighteen trout, and the 

 average weight was thirteen and a half ounces. The 

 afternoon added only three or four fish to the number, the 

 trout refusing to rise as it grew colder. My friends had 

 not the same fortune as I had, but the united baskets 

 were quite large enough to satisfy reasonable mortals. 

 At eleven o'clock at night we got back to delightful 

 Haeg, situated among towering hills and falling waters, 

 and here, had we been wise, we should have spent all 

 the time that our journey over to Christiania allowed us. 

 There is no place along the route I am endeavouring 

 to describe that will repay the fisherman so well as this, 

 where the river is so admirably suited to his requirements, 

 and where the quarters are so good and so cheap. As 

 an illustration of the latter quality I will give my first 

 experience of the place. We arrived, as I have mentioned, 

 in the evening, and had a meal, then drove to Breistol, 

 and slept a night on the hill top, returning to Haeg the 

 following night, where we took another meal, slept there, 

 had breakfast, and paid one mark, that is, lO^d. each. 

 But prices are higher now in Norway, as elsewhere, than 

 they were, and loid. will not go so far as it did. Still it 

 is cheap enough, and if what I have mentioned costs you 

 half a crown, you may pass on and be thankful. 



The river immediately behind the Haeg station 



