TROUT IN NOR WA Y. 33 



The next journey was to Fagernoes, only a short day 

 again ; we reached it at four in the afternoon, and for 

 the first time since we landed in the country, had dinner. 

 The station, or hotel it now is, is a very excellent, and 

 after some of the rough quarters we had been in, 

 luxurious one, but the place is the head-quarters of the 

 flies and mosquitoes of the country. Here they come in 

 their thousands. It is the only disadvantage of the place. 

 But there are advantages to outbalance the plague of flies. 

 The station is again on the margin of a fine lake, sur- 

 rounded by hills clad from summit to water's edge with 

 fir and birch, a delightful mixture of verdure. A fine 

 river flows into the lake half a mile away, and the fishing 

 is said to be excellent, though, I must confess that on my 

 two visits I have not found the trout in the humour. On 

 the evening I am speaking of, I did however get one of 

 two pounds, and a few smaller ones. 



Next we went on to Frydenlund, where we were 

 informed there was good fishing in one of the two rivers 

 on the far side of the lake, which is one of the same long 

 chain on which Fagernoes is situated. The river is some 

 distance away, and we lost much time on the lake before 

 reaching it, so that it was evening again before we were 

 fairly at work. It rained heavily all the time we were 

 out, and I do not consider that, under the uncomfortable 

 state of affairs we encountered, we gave the place a 

 fair trial. Many fish I know I lost through the wet line 

 sticking to the rod and refusing to run out ; however, 

 when we stopped I had twenty- five trout, the largest of 

 them a pound, and the average about the usual one of 



