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by the hope of a dainty meal. Six 

 weeks the herder daily endeavours 

 to locate the reindeer, seeking his 

 shelter in one of the many saeters 

 that dot the hills ; then he is relieved 

 by another youth equally hardy and 

 knowing not fear. Periodically some 

 lusty deer give up their lives that 

 man may live the fatter, the meat 

 being used as beef is in America. 

 Delicious we found it, when properly 

 prepared. 



Indeed the reindeer is a host in 

 himself for the North Country 

 dwellers. They drive him, they 

 hunt him, they wear him, they eat 

 him and still remains the bloom of 

 his wild inheritance that pervades 

 the spirit of the people, their tra- 

 ditions and their literature. 



The Spanish manana, the English 

 to-morrow, the Norwegian never 

 mind are synonyms, all mean post- 

 pone the evil. There was obviously 

 a hitch; at the end of a week 

 we got no nearer the reindeer 

 herds. Something was preventing. 

 I determined to discover what. 

 Half an hour's work with the 

 interpreter, consisting principally 



