182 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
in making a bag. In bear districts most of the Bonder 
employ a hunter in their service, who gets a certain 
payment from them, together with the government 
reward. 
It is toilsome and severe work; for it not only 
necessitates being early up in the country when it is 
still bitterly cold, but the fatigue that must necessarily 
be undergone, added to the wretched accommodation 
and poor fare to be met with in outlying districts, 
renders it a question whether the contingency of a bear 
will repay the trouble. On the other hand, it is more 
than probable that an ardent sportsman, capable of 
undergoing all the above disagreeables, would attain 
the object of his desires. And perhaps his best plan 
would be to make the acquaintance of some Bonde 
in the summer, and make arrangements beforehand 
with him to lay out Odde, ¢.e., the carcase above spoken 
of, and then come out at the preconcerted time. 
There is no doubt but that bears are shot in the 
summer, but it is only occasionally, I am inclined to 
think; and, at all events, the Englishman’s chance 
of sport among them at this season is infinitely more 
remote. Still, if a man is capable of undergoing a 
great deal of hard work, and can digest an enormous 
amount of disappointment and vexation of spirit, giving 
himself entirely up to this one absorbing object, he 
may possibly (if he is fortunate enough to secure the 
