158 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
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THE FEATHERED GAME OF NORWAY. 
From the casual remarks interspersed here and there 
in my description of each Amt, I am induced to think 
that I may have given too bright a colour to, and 
raised too high expectations of the general shooting 
to be had in Norway. I therefore hasten to soften 
it down a little, and to impart a more sober tone to the 
picture I have drawn. 
If a man be a true lover of nature, and a true sports- 
man into the bargain (and how often do the two go 
together !), the pleasure and gratification he will expe- 
rience from rambling through the wild and glorious 
scenery of “gamle Norge” will prove a compensation 
to any disappointment he may undergo in the matter 
of sport. If the free life, the grandeur of the forests, 
and the desolate, nay savage, wildness of the fjelds, the 
noble cascades, and, not the least, the pure atmosphere © 
of the mountains, possess charms for him, I may say 
