132 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
violent perspiration it educes may easily be the case. 
In Christiania it is usually the custom for parties of 
cadets, students, &c., to go out long excursions on 
Sunday, and have steeple-chases. The accompanying 
sketch, taken from the illustrated newspaper of the 
Norwegian capital, may suffice to give an idea of it. 
I should add that even on level ground seven or eight 
miles an hour, and even more, can readily be accom- 
plished by a good runner. 
But I must pull up. Let me see, I was saying 
many elk are killed on “skie.” Their long legs stick in 
the snow, so that it is not difficult to come up with ~ 
them. Many, too, fall victims to the wolves at this 
season, which are able to run over the snow without 
sinking very deep, though even these are easily over- 
taken by the hunter when equipped with his snow 
** skie.” 
In the winter of 1848-49 there were killed, unlaw- 
fully, in Vaaler, no less than 140 elks. 
Though many elks are still shot unlawfully, yet 
instances (exceptional, undoubtedly) do occasionally 
occur where the most extraordinary scrupulousness 
has been evinced by the parties concerned, to the ad- 
vantage of the elk. I remember reading in the “ Mor- 
genblad,” a winter or two ago, about the capture of an 
elk which was enjoying a swim in a small lake some 
miles from Christiania. It had been seen from shore, 
