THE FEATHERED GAME OF NORWAY. 179 
feathers. No one that I have ever met with or heard 
of has ever incurred any risk thereby.”—Vzde ‘In 
Med. Danorum Domestica,’ p. 66. Still, all those who 
have travelled on the Continent know the oppressive- 
ness which is caused by having to sleep with a feather 
bed thrown over one—a practice which cannot be con- 
ducive to health. 
