A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . a Frenchmanand his family that we have run across sev-eral times during our travels from the NorthCape down to here. No, there was no prettymadamoiselle along but there was a smallboy who wore short socks and had his thin,little legs bare up to his knees, that is whyI have noticed the family. During the after-noon we took a walk and found the streetscrowded. It feels good to get back to atown of some size, where you can see a num-ber of people. Monday, August the day going with Maud andMarian. We visited several fur sh
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . a Frenchmanand his family that we have run across sev-eral times during our travels from the NorthCape down to here. No, there was no prettymadamoiselle along but there was a smallboy who wore short socks and had his thin,little legs bare up to his knees, that is whyI have noticed the family. During the after-noon we took a walk and found the streetscrowded. It feels good to get back to atown of some size, where you can see a num-ber of people. Monday, August the day going with Maud andMarian. We visited several fur shops andat one of the largest establishments saw |some beautiful furs, mostly fox skins. Theyhad some magnificent silver tipped blacks,that were very high priced. Then, therewere red and cross fox pelts. Finally, con-sidering them more appropriate, I selectedfour nice blue fox skins and told the dealerto make them up in a muff and stole forMarian. I wanted to get an ermine wrapfor Maud, but she would not let me, sayingshe thought it too high priced. Well, it was. o A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 99 a beauty and she will never get as good aone so cheap. This evening Charles wentto dinner at Peters home. Of course, heand Peter are the best of friends, but I im-agine that a pretty sister was the principalattraction. In addition to the sister therewas the father, mother and an uncle, andfrom the condition of my hopeful, when hegot home early in the morning, the toastsmust have been frequent and varied. Nevermind, we are only young once in a life time. Tuesday, August took the train for Christiania earlythis morning. The railway, which connectsthe two largest cities of Norway, is a won-derful piece of engineering work and wasonly completed in 1909. At first the roadskirts the Sorfjord, on the way passingthrough many tunnels. Finally, by means ofone half a mile long, the railway enters theVosseelve. Turning and twisting, it followsup that valley until it reaches Voss, the placeat wh
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