30 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



minute or two, beautiful still in death, is lying on the 

 grass. Perhaps there is another. Out go the flies again, 

 and after two or three casts we have a brace towards 

 breakfast, and by a quarter of an hour has passed, another 

 brace to it. This, too, before we are dressed ! Where 

 else is fishing like this } 



Our Breistol trout came in very opportunely ; a family 

 of English people we met here were delighted to have 

 a basketful, and the people of the house were nothing 

 unwilling. I have sometimes thought that the loid. paid 

 for our lodging must have been the amount they made us 

 debtors, after giving us credit for the fish we left them. 



From Haeg, the road is a steady ascent to Nystuen, 

 where the summit of the hill (the Fille Fjeld), 3,500 feet 

 high, is reached. As we have got higher we have several 

 times seen a curious animal, the lemming, which is not 

 unlike a little guinea pig, and which the natives regard 

 with great aversion. It comes in swarms from the far 

 north, only once in three or four years, and the creatures 

 spread themselves over the high grounds of the south. 

 They travel, it is said, in a straight line, turning neither 

 to right nor left, and establish themselves so rapidly and 

 simultaneously over a district, that the country people say 

 they come from the clouds, and I was gravely assured by 

 a strapping fellow we engaged at Nystuen that this was 

 the case. The lemming seems quite inoffensive, though 

 it barks like a little dog when you assault it, and for this 

 reason the Norwegian name for it is "lom-hund,"or "pocket 

 dog," From Nystuen we descend to Skogstad, and then 

 proceed to Tune, reaching the latter at dark ; it is a black 



