CHAPTER XI.

Night alarm--The Puru Rawnee--Donkeys admired--Norwegian ponies--Our gipsy life--Norwegian flowers--Wild forest--The pipe of tobacco--Pictures of imagination--The crippled man--Camp near Holmen--Noah’s self-denial--Wet night--Peasant girls’ serenade--Zachariah’s gaiety--Lovely nature--Norwegian newspaper--The mystery explained--Frokost spoilt 102