CHAPTER XIV.

Three generations--Dangers of the Folgo--Murray at fault--Author takes boat for the entrance of the Bondehus Valley--The king of the waterfall--More glacier paths--An extensive ice-house--These glorious palaces--How is the harvest?--Laxe-stie--Struggle-stone--To Vikör--Östudfoss, the most picturesque waterfall in Norway--An eternal crystal palace--How to earn a pot of gold--Information for the _Morning Post_--A parsonage on the Hardanger--Steamers for the Fjords--Why living is becoming dearer in Norway--A rebuke for the travelling English--Sunday morning--Peasants at church--Female head-dresses--A Norwegian church service--Christening--Its adumbration in heathen Norway--A sketch for Washington Irving pp. 273-292