180 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



CHAPTER IV. 



BEAR AND LYNX HUNTING, ETC. REMARKS ON 

 BIRDS OF PREY. 



ENGLISH bear-hunters in Norway may be declined like 

 adjective pronouns, i. e., divided into three degrees the 

 positively unfortunate, the comparatively lucky, and 

 the superlatively successful. 



The first are those who have toiled and moiled at 

 " bear-slaving," without ever catching even so much as 

 a glimpse of his shaggy highness; the second those 

 who have been fortunate enough either just to have 

 seen him, or to have missed doing so by an in- 

 appreciable punctum temporis ; and the third, those 

 who have actually shot a bear, and perhaps brought 

 home with them a pot of the genuine grease as a 

 trophy, which in all probability proved so unpleasant to 

 the olfactory nerves as to have been thrown away from 

 not having been properly prepared. 



That there are a good many bears in Norway, the 

 remarks interspersed above, and the returns which have 



