Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden: Being Extracts from the Journal of a Fisherman

Sketches in Norway and Sweden! Are they fact or fiction? are they to be instructive or simply entertaining? These are questions which the public has a right to ask, and which th...

There is no saying more true than that “he who would make a tour abroad, must first make the tour of London.” There are miscellaneous articles of appropriate clothing to be got...

What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?— What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?— Put him in the long-boat and make him bale her, Early in the morning.

One by one the travellers crept down to the cabin. It was as uncomfortable as cabins usually are, perhaps more so, as being more lumbered and more crowded; and the ordinary spac...

“Bewilderedly gazes On the wild sea, the eagle When he reaches the strand: So is it with the man; In the crowd he standeth And hath but few friends there.”

At the time the _Walrus_ dropped her anchor, all seemed as still and lonely as if no sound had ever awakened the silence of the harbour. The chain cable, as it rattled through t...

“And now for work,” said the Parson, as, somewhat late on the following morning they rose from a breakfast as substantial and plentiful as had been the supper of the night befor...

“Rouse out, Birger, my boy,” said the Captain; “recollect we have got the Rapids of Oxea to pass before we get any breakfast, and that we have our breakfast to catch into the ba...

Many minutes had not expired, during which brief space the fishermen had been luxuriating in their dry clothes, when the boats were seen working their way back across the tail o...

“If thou hadst not been leading a life of sin— The sun shines over Enen— Thou wouldst have given me water thy bare hand within— Under the linden green. Now, this is the penance...

“Hallo! what is the matter now?” said the Captain, who had been out with his gun that morning, and on his return caught sight of the Parson sitting disconsolate on the river’s b...

“Onward amid the copse ’gan peep, A narrow inlet still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck’s brood to swim; Lost for a space through thickets...

“’Tis a homestead that scarce has an equal, Plenteous in wood and corn-fields, with rich grassy meadow and moorland— This won my father, long since, in wedding the farmer’s fair...

One reason why the fishermen were so anxious to reach Soberud was, that the next day was Sunday, and they wanted a day of rest, and a church to go to; and that was not to be met...

The whole party found their quarters in the Soberud valley so extremely comfortable, and the game so very abundant, that they were readily induced to prolong their stay; and the...

“For now in our trim boats of Norroway deal We must dance on the waves with the porpoise and seal;— The breeze it shall pipe, so it pipe not too high, And the gull be our songst...

“So brilliant was the landward view, The ocean so serene; Each puny wave in diamonds rolled O’er the calm deep, where hues of gold With azure strove, and green. The hill, the va...

Early rising is not pleasant at sea. Captain Basil Hall may talk of the joyous morning watch if he likes,—but there is nothing joyous in washing decks, and that is what most shi...

“Gefjon drew from Gylfi Rich stored-up treasure,— The land she joined to Denmark. Four heads and eight eyes bearing, While hot sweat trickled down them, The oxen dragged the ref...

The day had been oppressively hot, more actual heat, perhaps—reckoning by the degrees of Reaumur or Farenheit—than had been experienced on the fjeld of the Tellemark;—but that w...

“The Night has covered her beauty. Her hair sighs on Ocean’s wind. Her robe streams in dusky wreaths. She is like the fair Spirit of heaven in the midst of its shadowy mist.

“A various scene the clansmen made— Some sate, some stood, some slowly strayed,— But most, with mantles folded round, Were couched to rest upon the ground— Scarce to be known by...

The sun had not yet lighted up the spires of the fir-trees, when a buzz of voices and a shuffling of feet broke the slumbers of the head-quarters party. Länsman Matthiesen, true...

Avoiding the advanced column of the dref, which had halted just short of the watercourse, the Parson and his follower took a line nearly parallel to that of the hills. It is no...

“Praise the day at eventide, The wife when she is dead, The sword when thou hast proved it, The maid when she is married, Ice when thou hast crossed it, Ale when thou hast drunk...

Sound and deep were the Parson’s slumbers, complete and absolute was his state of unconsciousness. Noises there were in the camp, no doubt, noises of every description: eight or...

“Now the hunting train is ready. Hark, away! By dale and height Horns are sounding,—hawks ascending up to Odin’s halls of light. Terror-struck, the wild-wood creatures seek thei...

“Truly my brethren—truly my dear sisters—do you know how it seems to me—why it seems to me that no one can get along till he has taken a draught—How so? Eh? Your health, dear soul—

When he came into the house at nightfall, She was angry with him—his old mother— “Son,” she said, “thou lay’st thy snares each morning, And each day thou comest back empty hande...

And, now, my good friends, I’ve a fine opportunity To obfuscate you all by sea terms with impunity. And talking of “caulking,” And “quarter-deck walking,” “Fore and aft,” And “a...