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happiest phase in the relationship between employer and 

 employee. Each appears to recognize that both are doing 

 , « . ' for the other what neither can perform for himself ; there 



*'*' is no obligation upon either side. Much the same feeling 



exists as between purveyor and purchaser, and I confess 

 that my small requirements are more pleasantly obtained 

 under such conditions than in countries where it is the , . 



habit of the seller to cringe and fawn in proportion to 

 *^ ' » the means or titles of his various customers. The 



Norwegian, from the highest to the lowest in social 

 position, is by nature a gentleman, and is very rarely 

 a snob. • -. » 



I was appointed spokesman, and discovered Mr. Beyer 

 seated at a desk bristling with correspondence, and, after a 

 few minutes' conversation, we had arranged to . take his . » ^'- 



water upon the Evanger river for a couple of weeks upon * 



his usual terms, which, from the little I knew of it, i^* * 



seemed fair enough. 



I do not know why, but hitherto I had certainly been 

 i under the impression that my new waterlord's occupation 



chiefly consisted in the sub-letting of rivers, but the first '^' 



few minutes spent in his establishment were sufficient to 

 disabuse me of this idea, for it was patent that his tourist ^ 



\- agency and general business must render him independent 

 of any small profit in other directions ; and my surmise 

 was correct, for he informed me that he was the lessee of 



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