tt SPORT IN NORWAY. 
bought a small piece of ground. She had scarcely got 
half way over when she perceived an elk on the op- 
posite side, standing at about the distance of eighty 
paces from the door of the man’s cabin. It seemed as 
if meditating on a swim. Thinking it a pleasant sight, 
she “easied all,” and sat looking at the noble beast. 
But soon other feelings than those of admiration began 
to be awakened within her breast. Winter would 
soon be coming on, and a good supply of elk’s meat 
would be no bad thing, leaving the uses to which hide, 
horns, fat, &c., &c., could be put out of the question. 
By dint of signs and gesticulations she managed to 
make the owner of the house acquaimted with the 
proximity of the animal. The man, who was himself 
an ardent hunter, but at the same time rather nervous 
about incurring a penalty of forty dollars, deemed 
it, however, prudent in the first place to consult 
his book and ascertain whether it was all right. 
Whether it was or not the story does not relate. But 
at all events his consultation ended in his bringing out 
his rifle; and he was just proceeding to stalk the elk 
after the most approved fashion when another difficulty 
occurred to him, the animal was not on his property. 
So in he went to have another look at the law. Mean- 
while the elk, becoming aware that something was 
between ‘‘ the wind and his nobility,” and not relishing 
the appearance of the old woman in the boat, quietly 
