132 SPOET IN NORWAY. 



violent perspiration it educes may easily be the case. 

 In Christiania it is usually the custom for parties of 

 cadets, students, &c., to go out long excursions on 

 Sunday, and have steeple-chases. The accompanying 

 sketch, taken from the illustrated newspaper of the 

 Norwegian capital, may suffice to give an idea of it. 

 I should add that even on level ground seven or eight 

 miles an hour, and even more, can readily be accom- 

 plished by a good runner. 



But I must pull up. Let me see, I was saying 

 many elk are killed on " skie." Their long legs stick in 

 the snow, so that it is not difficult to come up with 

 them. Many, too, fall victims to the wolves at this 

 season, which are able to run over the snow without 

 sinking very deep, though even these are easily over- 

 taken by the hunter when equipped with his snow 

 " skie." 



In the winter of 1848-49 there were killed, unlaw- 

 fully, in Vaaler, no less than 140 elks. 



Though many elks are still shot unlawfully, yet 

 instances (exceptional, undoubtedly) do occasionally 

 occur where the most extraordinary scrupulousness 

 has been evinced by the parties concerned, to the ad- 

 vantage of the elk. I remember reading in the " Mor- 

 genblad," a winter or two ago, about the capture of an 

 elk which was enjoying a swim in a small lake some 

 miles from Christiania. It had been seen from shore, 



