CHAPTER XI.

From Fairy-lore to Nature-lore--Charming idea for stout folk--Action and reaction--Election-day at Bergen--A laxstie--A careless pilot--Discourse about opera-glasses--Paulsen Vellavik and the bears--The natural character of bears--Poor Bruin in a dilemma--An intelligent Polar bear--Family plate--What is fame?--A simple Simon--Limestone fantasia--The paradise of botanists--Strength and beauty knit together--Mountain hay-making--A garden in the wilderness--Footprints of a celebrated botanist--Crevasses--Dutiful snow streams--Swerre’s sok--The Rachels of Eternity--A Cockney’s dream of desolation--Curds-and-whey--The setting-in of misfortunes--Author’s powder-flask has a cold bath--The shadows of the mountains--The blind leading the blind--On into the night--The old familiar music--Holloa--Welcome intelligence pp. 161-187