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This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain...
In regard to exercise. Two consecutive hours a day for exercise are certainly to be desired, but if dinner were at six through the winter months alone, there would be but one hour for the purpose, and were dinner at five there would be none at all. The latter, then...
It is also asserted that, by the proposed plan, "two hours, from 4 till 6, are utilized, whereas, by the present system, no one feels like doing anything which resembles work, bodily or mental, from 2 to 4." Will not the boot fit the other leg? If the hours from...
Ride all the morning on a train which goes at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. In the afternoon embark on a steamboat which makes between fifteen and sixteen miles an hour. (These statistics I glean from time-tables, which I studied carefully before leaving Christiania.) On board the...
I take a stroll around the town. Population chiefly pigs. Fog has lifted, and sun again very warm. Soon get tired of walking, and come back to the house. Everybody gone to bed. Suppose it must be one of the customs of the country to retire before the sun goes...