The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-15

pants urged Lars and the professor forward at renewed speed.
 As 1t was, they were obliged to pass a night beside a lonely tarn. shut in by black, forbidding walls, with snow clad peaks for the only outlook beyond. Here Lars genius for surmounting difficulties was aptly Illustrated. Dur ing the last two hours ascent. Lars had gathered here and there every dead branch of wood that came In sight, as we'll as punches of juniper branches. With his tollkniv or belt knife which every Norwegian peasant | carries, and some bits of strong cord possessed by every Norwegian post boy for mending broken harness. he had arranged these in compact punches. be- slowing them on his head, shoulders and body, until he was completely hid den from sight.
 With the dry wood he built a cheer full fire. The Juniper branches pro- vided their bed, which was laid In n snug angle of a projecting rock. A travelling rug and stout carriole blanket formed their covering, and there beneath the glittering stars they slept as only tired mountain climbers may
 The next morning their ascent was resumed through hollows, over ridges where ice and snow lay concealed be- heath thin layers of black sediment and slime, around soundless tarns still and dark as the walls enclosing them, past copses of stunted fir. through ma ture tunnels as dark as Eblis' depths, until, late in the afternoon they came to the lonely saeter of Klippe-hul truly lonely hollow between the crags. From a distance nothing could be distinguished but a low. wide hut a. the side of a pockety ravine, through which a narrow torrent poured; the whole shut In from Romsdal way by black and tooth-like crags, and on tho other, by broken rocks. here and ther splatched by already browning bits c verdure. above which lay the eternal glittering ice.
 At first no human being was in sight about the saeter; but shortly q flaxen- haired maiden of splendid figure stood beside the hut door. Shading her eyes with her round, bare arm, she gaze long and earnestly at the advancin; couple. Lars gurgled nightly at this, made wonderful gestures and cried ou' ecstatically:
 "Hansine! Hansine!'
 Suddenly a girl rushed at them i. a sort of bounding gallop. and. seizinf the post-boy guide. hugged him wildly, wrestled with him, turned him round and about and again hugged him while tears of joy flowed down her winsome face, poured torrents of en- dearing questions and ejaculations upon him: while the Professor, not without @ trace of wonder and admira ton in his keen little eyes, stood i'm patiently by.
 Then came the wonderful hospitality of these mountain eeries. The COWS might come or stay in their mountain fastnesses, until the newcomers were given their bowls of milk and drink and drink again they must; water for washing; some curious old half-wooden shoes to replace their heavy boots; and such an aftensmad or supper as was never before piled before Professor Detrius Moraine: greed or stirabout enough for the saeter's pigs; cream by the quart; butter by the stone weight; milk by the gallon; coffee and black bread and bacon in alarming measure: while they were ceasalessly piled with importunate commands to eat and never stop eating, land beset, with