CHAPTER VI.

A dreary station--Strange bed-fellows--Broadsides--Comfortable proverb--Skarp England--Interesting particulars--A hospitable Norwegian Foged--Foster-children--The great bear-hunter--A terrible Bruin--Forty winks--The great Vennefoss--A temperance lamentation--More bear talk--Grey legs--Monosyllabic conversation--Trout fished from the briny deep--A warning to the beaux of St. James’s-street--Thieves’ cave--A novelette for the Adelphi pp. 82-100