WITH CARL OF THE HILL 

 A Sketch from Life. 



Carl. 



In the very heart of Scandinavia lies a great forest. 

 In this forest is a clearing ; in the clearing a hut ; and 

 here — hunter, farmer, timber-cutter^here lives Carl 

 oftheHilL 



Carl's little holding is of so simple a kind you 

 would scarcely know it for a farm. Here are no rows 

 of yellow corn-stacks, no comfortable range of well- 

 tiled buildings, no stockyards knee-deep in sweet 

 straw-litter, none of the signs of well-to-do circum- 

 stances that mark an English homestead. The log- 

 made hut has only three compartments — dairy, 

 living-room, and bedroom. Outside, in a sort of 

 compound, is a cow-byre, a stable for the two horses, 

 a wooden frame on which elk-skins are stretched and ^^ S^o-c^Ur 

 dried, and a pit covered with boards and rubbish- /a^ .'—-■ 



