Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Little Hans heard every word that they spoke, and he would have cried out again, if it hadn’t appeared such great fun to be playing hide-and-go-seek with the lumbermen. He had a...

Nils paused close to the mill, and peered intently into the rushing current; but nothing appeared. Then he stole down to the river-bank, where he seated himself on a big stone,...

The sheriff was too astonished to speak. Never before, in his experience, had poachers raced for dear life to give themselves into custody. He feared that they were making sport...

When Paul got home he began at once to ponder upon his character as Beast, and particularly as Miss Clara’s Beast. It occurred to him that his uncle, the furrier, had an enormou...

Lady Clare was not sent to the mountains in the summer, as are nearly all horses in the Norwegian country districts. She was left untethered in an enclosed home pasture about ha...

Around the big warm stove the boys gathered (for it was positively Siberian in the region of the windows), and while undressing played various pranks upon each other, which crea...

This was a standing dispute between Nils and Inga, his wife, and they never came to an agreement. She knew as well as her husband that before little Hans was born there was want...

Here came a wild, piercing yell, as the Sons of the Vikings rushed forward from behind the rocks, and with a terrible war-whoop swooped down upon the road. Wolf-in-the-Temple, w...

It was Carina, indeed; but the storm whirled her tiny voice away over the waves, and her father, folding her with one arm to his breast, while holding the sheet with the other,...

When Bonnyboy had been confirmed, the question again rose what was to become of him. He was now a tall young fellow, red-checked, broad-shouldered, and strong, and rather nice-l...

THE BATTLE OF THE RAFTS THE CLASH OF ARMS BICEPS GRIMLUND’S CHRISTMAS VACATION THE NIXY’S STRAIN THE WONDER CHILD “THE SONS OF THE VIKINGS” PAUL JESPERSEN’S MASQUERADE LADY CLAR...

The river-bed was here expanded to a wide basin, in which the logs floated lazily down to the cataract below. Trees and underbrush, which usually stood on dry land, were half-su...

“Seventy dollars!” he cried, as if he were really too shocked to speak at all; “seven-ty dollars! Make it eighty! Oh, it is a sin and a shame, gentlemen, and the fair fame of th...

With his rifle on his shoulder and his skees on his feet, Lars glided slowly along over the glittering surface of the snow, for the mountain was steep, and he had to zigzag in l...