158 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



CHAPTEE III. 



THE FEATHERED GAME OF NORWAY. 



FROM the casual remarks interspersed here and there 

 in my description of each Amt, I am induced to think 

 that I may have given too bright a colour to, and 

 raised too high expectations of the general shooting 

 to be had in Norway. I therefore hasten to soften 

 it down a little, and to impart a more sober tone to the 

 picture I have drawn. 



If a man be a true lover of nature, and a true sports- 

 man into the bargain (and how often do the two go 

 together !), the pleasure and gratification he will expe- 

 rience from rambling through the wild and glorious 

 scenery of " gamle Norge " will prove a compensation 

 to any disappointment he may undergo in the matter 

 of sport. If the free life, the grandeur of the forests, 

 and the desolate, nay savage, wildness of the fjelds, the 

 noble cascades, and, not the least, the pure atmosphere 

 of the mountains, possess charms for him, I may say 



