26o Angling Travels in Norway. 



of twenty-four English miles, and we then prepared to 

 settle down. 



The only living thing we had seen upon the road, 

 excepting the fieldfare, was a large hawk, named in 

 Norwegian the mouse-hawk. 



THE FOBSTASSISTEN'T's HOUSE. 



Our host, Herr C. Nieuwejaar, held the Government 

 appointment of Forstassistent over a large district, for 

 which he had qualified some sixteen years ago by 

 several years' study of forestry in German}% and lived, 

 with his wife and family, in a comfortable house and 

 farm offices built for him by the Government, and it did 

 not take us long to discover that we were extremely 

 fortunate as regarded our quarters and entertainment. 



