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WILD NORWAY. 
CHAPTER III. 
REINDEER-STALKING— Continued. 
“ A glorious First op September.” 
The ground selected for to-day’s operations lay far to 
the soutli-west, beyond a long chain of lakes which 
extended in that direction, and on which, fortunately, 
was a boat, dragged out thither on a sledge in winter. 
We were astir with the sun, and an hour’s walk brought 
us to the boat hidden in a hollow of the rocks. Having 
several miles to pull, we set up the rods, and a small 
blue phantom extracted three trout weighing four and 
a half pounds, the “ spoon ” being ignored as an article 
of diet. 
Landing at the south end, we continued in that 
direction over a range of country which was more open 
and of richer pasturage than any we had hitherto seen. 
Grass and herbage clothed the valleys and minor ridges, 
even extending some distance up the loftier heights, 
leaving comparatively but small areas of naked rock 
and snow-fjeld. There can be no doubt that such 
ground would afford fair summer grazing; but its vast 
extent and remoteness forbids the existence of sseters. 
For some hours we spied lovely glens and fj eld-meadow 
without seeing game; and I had fallen back for a 
