s of admonition, painted upon
triangular boards, introduced to strengthen the pillars at the head and
foot. One of these inscriptions ran, "This is my bed: here I take my
rest in the night, and when morning comes I get up cheerfully and go to
work;" and the other, "When thou liest down to sleep think on thy last
hour, pray that God will guard thy sleep, and be ready for thy last hour
when it comes." On the bottom of the cupboard was a representation of
two individuals with chalk-white faces and inky eyes, smoking their
pipes and clinking glasses. The same fondness for decorations and
inscriptions is seen in all the houses in Tellemark and a great part of
Hallingdal. Some of them are thoroughly Chinese in gaudy colour and
grotesque design.

In the course of an hour and a half we obtained three strong and
spirited stallions, and continued our journey towards the Tind-So.
During this stage of twelve or thirteen miles, the quality of our
carrioles was tested in the most satisfactory manner. Up-hill and down,
over stock and stone, jolted on rock and wrenched in gulley, they were
whirled at a smashing rate; but the tough ash and firmly-welded iron
resisted every shock. For any other than Norwegian horses and vehicles,
it would have been hazardous travelling. We were anxious to retain the
same animals for the remaining stage to Tinoset, at the foot of the
lake; but the postillions refused, and a further delay of two hours was
the consequence. It was dark when the new horses came; and ten miles of
forest lay before us. We were ferried one by one across the Tind Elv, on
a weak, loose raft and got our carrioles up a frightful bank on the
opposite side by miraculous luck. Fortunately we struck the post-road
from Hitterdal at this place; for it would have been impossible to ride
over such rocky by-ways as we had left behind us. A white streak was all
that was visible in the gloom of the forest. We kept in the middle of
it, not knowing whether the road went up, down, or on a level, until we
had gone over it. At last, however, the forest came to an end, and we
saw Tind Lake lying still and black in the starlight. All were in bed at
Tinoset; but we went into the common sleeping-room, and stirred the
people up promiscuously until we found the housewife, who gave us the
only supper the house afforded--hard oaten bread and milk. We three then
made the most of two small beds.

In the morning we took a boat, with four oarsmen, for Mael, a