CHAPTER VIII.

Peculiar livery--Bleke--A hint to Lord Breadalbane--Enormous trout--Trap for timber logs--Exciting scene--Melancholy Jacques in Norway--The new church of Sannes--A clergyman’s midsummer-day dream--Things in general at Froisnaes--Pleasing intelligence--Luxurious magpies--A church without a congregation--The valley of the shadow of death--Mouse Grange--A tradition of Findal--Fable and feeling--A Highland costume in Norway--Ancestral pride--Grand old names prevalent in Sætersdal--Ropes made of the bark of the lime-tree--Carraway shrub--Government schools of agriculture--A case for a London magistrate--Trout fishing in the Högvand--Cribbed, cabined, and confined--A disappointment--The original outrigger--The cat-lynx--A wealthy Norwegian farmer--Bear-talk--The consequence of taking a drop too much--Story of a Thuss--Cattle conscious of the presence of the hill people--Fairy music pp. 125-148