TROUT IN NOR I VA Y. 9 



ending at the back of the bath, where a cross-board is 

 placed, on which your luggage, if you have any, is tied. 

 The journeys along the roads are in stages, from "station" 

 to "station," four or five to ten or twelve English miles 

 apart. These stations are places at which you change 

 your horses or carrioles, and at most of them you can get 

 a bed and food, if you require them. 



It is not advisable to go further than one stage with 

 the same horse, even if the animal is equal to it, but 

 perhaps the first ride from Bergen is an exception. The 

 first two stages will be about sixteen miles, and this 

 distance you will do for one dollar. Your drive is through 

 scenery which you would suppose to be Scotch if you did 

 not know it to be Norwegian, and, though beautiful and 

 varied, has nothing particularly noticeable about it. 

 Garnoes, the first station, is reached at about twelve 

 o'clock. It is on the edge of a fiord, where the road termi- 

 nates, and further progress must evidently be by water. 



As soon as we arrived, we asked for the Day Book 

 and booked ourselves, as it is always necessary to do, for 

 the next stage, to Dale, a water journey of seventeen or 

 eighteen miles. We found the peasants in the house 

 eating out of one common dish, with one wooden spoon 

 which was also common to the lot, and I had a little 

 discussion with the men as to how long a boat would take 

 to get ready. My stock of the native tongue is not large, 

 and being on the first day unaccustomed even to the sound 

 of it, I could make nothing out of them, but one was a 

 practical genius, and leading me to the clock, pointed to 

 two o'clock. " No, no," I said, and in turn pointed to the 



