loi SPORT IN NORWAY. 



bought a small piece of ground. She had scarcely got 

 half way over when she perceived an elk on the op- 

 posite side, standing at about the distance of eighty 

 paces from the door of the man's cabin. It seemed as 

 if meditating on a swim. Thinking it a pleasant sight, 

 she " easied all," and sat looking at the noble beast. 

 But soon other feelings than those of admiration began 

 to be awakened within her breast. Winter would 

 soon be coming on, and a good supply of elk's meat 

 would be no bad thing, leaving the uses to which hide, 

 horns, fat, &c., &c., could be put out of the question. 

 By dint of signs and gesticulations she managed to 

 make the owner of the house acquainted with the 

 proximity of the animal. The man, who was himself 

 an ardent hunter, but at the same time rather nervous 

 about incurring a penalty of forty dollars, deemed 

 it, however, prudent in the first place to consult 

 his book and ascertain whether it was all right. 

 Whether it was or not the story does not relate. But 

 at all events his consultation ended in his bringing out 

 his rifle ; and he' was just proceeding to stalk the elk 

 after the most approved fashion when another difficulty 

 occurred to him, the animal was not on his property. 

 So in he went to have another look at the law. Mean- 

 while the elk, becoming aware that something was 

 between " the wind and his nobility," and not relishing 

 the appearance of the old woman in the boat, quietly 



