SPORT AND TRAVEL IN NORWAY. 6 



fishing on Saturday evening at six, when the Norwegian 

 Sabbath commences, and to fish again on Sunday even- 

 ing at six, when it ends. This usually took place in the 

 best pool on the river, close to the house, in presence of 

 the greater portion of the inhabitants, numbering some 

 fourteen souls. One Sunday my friend, after trying 

 the whole pool twice carefully without raising a fish, 

 turned and spoke jocularly in Norwegian. " The next 

 performer will now oblige the company with a worm." 

 In a few minutes I had taken two salmon from the 

 same pool. 



Our best day on the hills above the house gave us 

 eight and a half brace of ryper or ptarmigan, shot by 

 walking them up without dogs. After these tramps 

 we generally spent the next day in a boat on the 

 fiord, when fifty whiting-pollack were often brought 

 back, besides cod and whiting, and one or more 

 white-throated or red-throated divers, which were 

 carefully skinned. My fishing line was once broken 

 by a large fish which had seized the bait, immediately 

 after which my companion had a bite and wagered it 

 was the same fish. Hauling the line in we found an 

 enormous cod at the end with my broken line dang- 

 ling from his mouth. 



On August 1st we visited a small lake among the 

 mountains, one of the sources of our river, and caught 

 fifteen trout in half an hour weighing almost exactly 

 three-quarters of a pound apiece, besides shooting 

 some ducks. We walked back for some miles in 

 heavy rain and made up our minds that it was more 



