re at least a dozen
gates across it in different places; and as the party approached, a
woman, a boy, or a girl appeared, to open them. Kendall or Shuffles
rewarded each of them with a few skillings for the service. When
their two and four skilling pieces were exhausted, they were obliged
to use larger coins, rather than be mean; but it was observed that the
Norwegians themselves, though able to ride in a carriage, never gave
anything. It was amusing to see the astonishment of the boys and girls
when they received an eight skilling piece, and the haste with which
they ran to their parents to exhibit the prize.

The party reached the vessels at five o'clock, and after supper the
boats were again in demand for a visit to Oscarshal, the white summer
palace, which could be seen from the ship. Mr. Bennett had provided
the necessary tickets, and made the arrangements for the excursion. It
is certainly a very pretty place, but there are a hundred country
residences in the vicinity of New York, Boston, or any other large
city of the United States, which excel it in beauty and elegance, as
well as in the expense lavished upon them. Before returning to the
anchorage, the boat squadron pulled about for a couple of hours among
the beautiful islands, and when the students returned to the fleet,
they felt that they had about exhausted Christiania and its environs.

The next day they went by the railroad train to Eidsvold, and there
embarked in the steamer Kong Oscar for a voyage of sixty-five miles up
the Mjosen Lake to Lillehammer, where they arrived at half past five
in the afternoon. The scenery of the lake is pleasant, but not grand,
the slope of the hills being covered with farms. Near the upper end,
the hills are higher, and the aspect is more picturesque. Some of the
western boys thought it looked like the shores of the Ohio River,
others compared it with the Delaware, and a New Hampshire youth
considered it more like Lake Winnipiseogee.

Lillehammer is a small town of seventeen hundred inhabitants. M.
Hammer's and Madame Ormsrud's hotel were not large enough to
accommodate the party, and they began to experience some of the
difficulties of travelling in such large numbers; but Mr. Bennett had
done his work well, and sleeping-rooms were provided in other houses
for the rest. The tourists rambled all over the town and its vicinity,
looked into the saw-mills, visited the farms, and compared the
agriculture with that of their