what I ate."

"That's so," added Laybold, as he gave the waiter an English
sovereign, and received his change in paper.

"Now, my boy, we'll go to sea again," said Scott, as he staggered
towards the door. "See here, Laybold."

"Well, what do you want?" snarled the latter.

"I'll tell you something, if you won't say anything about it to any
one."

"I won't."

"Don't tell the principal."

"No."

"Well, then, we're drunk," added Scott, with a tipsy grin.

"You are."

"I am, my boy; I don't know a bob-stay from a bowling hitch. And you
are as drunk as I am, Laybold."

"I know what I am about."

"So do I know what you are about. You are making a fool of yourself.
Hold on a minute," added Scott, as he seated himself on a bench before
a shop.

"Come along, Scott."

"Not for Joseph."

"We shall be left."

"That's just what I want. I'm not going to present myself before the
principal in this condition--not if I know it."

Laybold, finding that it was not convenient to stand, seated himself
by the side of his companion. Presently they discovered a party of
officers on their way to the boats, and they staggered into a lane to
escape observation. The two students, utterly vanquished by "finkel,"
did not appear at the landing, and the boats left without them.

CHAPTER XI.

ON THE WAY TO THE RJUKANFOS.

"What may the Rjukanfos be?" asked Clyde Blacklock, after his courier
had started on his return to Christiania.

"O, it's a big thing," replied Sanford. "You can bet high on it."

"Doubtless I can; but is it a mountain, a river, or a lake?"

"'Pon my word, I don't know. Here, Norway!" he shouted to Ole, who was
with the rest of the party.

"I'm here, Mr. Coxswain," replied the waif.

"What's the Rjukanfos? You told me we ought to go there; but I'll be
hanged if I know whether it's a lake or a river."

"Neither a lake nor a river," replied Ole. "It's a big waterfall.
_Fos_, on the end of a word, always makes a waterfall of it. There's
another, the Voeringfos; but that's too far away."

"How far is it?"

"I don't know; but it's a long distance," added Ole. "All the other
fellows think we are going to Christiania in the morning."

"All but Stockwell and Rodman," answered Sanford, who had told Ole
about the new recruit.

"So you are going to play it upon them--are you?" laughed Clyde.

"Just a little. We don't want to leave Norway without seeing something
of the country, and the rest of