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was, by shooting the rapids in a boat, and getting out 

 at each pool. Above Stor Pool, a famous cast for 

 large fish, and below Kongen Pool, the way was 

 barred by solidly constructed salmon traps made of 

 pine logs which would have interposed impassable 

 barriers even if the rapids had been practicable for 

 boats, which was not the case. These traps were made 

 on the principle of the lobster pot, with V-shaped 

 entrances through which salmon could ascend but 

 not return. When I was on the Sundal the lawful 

 season for netting or trapping was over, and they 

 were no longer in use, but I was informed that fish 

 which escaped after being hooked in the early part of 

 the season were nearly always caught in the salmon 

 trap next above on the following night, often with the 

 fly still in their jaws. The tenants of the rod fishings 

 used to give a reward of a kroner for every fly 

 returned to them, and were thus able to ascertain the 

 precise weights of many of the fish they lost, which 

 did not always come up to the estimate of their size 

 formed at the moment of parting. The custom of 

 giving a kroner reward for a lost fly was so well 

 known in the valley that it was accounted a huge joke 

 when the coin was offered to a " soeter pige " in the 

 upper valley, who brought us back a Zulu which had 

 been broken off in the hide of an inquisitive black and 

 white heifer when we were fishing one of the lakes. 



Norway will never lose its charms for me ; I love 

 its mountains, streams, and lakes, and above all I love 

 its people. Three "Ole's" their name is legion in 

 Scandinavia have been my friends and comrades on 

 different beats in the Sundal valley. They all differed 

 exceedingly in appearance and temperament, but all 



