: Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Smith Hubert Solicitor - Norway Description and travel; Romanies

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INTRODUCTION xxi

Norway--Our gipsy tent--Tent fittings--Cooking apparatus--Commissariat--Gipsies' tent--Bagage de luxe--Weight of baggage--Transit--Donkeys--Our party--Esmeralda 1

Gipsy equipment--Norwegian gipsies--Proesten Eilert Sundt--The Hull steamer--The tourist's friend--Our gipsy song 11

A friend's misgiving--Dark forebodings--A sleepless night--The railway station--The Albion--A philosopher--The street boy--Distinguished travellers 19

England's farewell--Summer tourists--The chevalier--Seafaring--A gipsy reception--Change of plans--Norwegian pilot--The Birmingham bagman--Inducement to authorship--Strange wills--A sailor's philosophy--Icelandic language--Prognostications 26

A seaman's adventures--The unfortunate tourist-An apt quotation--Freemasonry--Christiansand--Past recollections--The Runic stone--Overpayment--Two salmon fishermen--A traveller's curiosity--Norwegian snakes--Scenery--We are one--Golden opinions 36

Mariner's life--The evasive answer--A true presentiment--The King of Norway and Sweden--The beautiful fjord--Gipsy music--A custom-house difficulty--Another Freemason--Appropriate verses Christiania--Horse money--17, Store Strandgade 46

The Victoria Hotel--The Gipsies' friend--The passe-partout-Proesten Eilert Sundt--The Christiania railway--Our donkeys appreciated--Gipsy spirit--The "tolk"--Norwegian money--Linguistic difficulties--Gipsy authors--Gipsy numerals--Departure from Christiania 54

A Norwegian officer--Norwegian emigration--Eidsvold--The Skydskiftet--Quiet retreat--Happy hours--Baiersk ?l--Esmeralda's toilette--The transformation--Curious address--New acquaintance--Noah's engagement--Noah's conquest--An ungrateful visitor--A reluctant parting 64

Moderate bill--Provisions lost--We meet again--Gipsies in advance--Left alone--A welcome telegram--Norwegian bath room--Singular paintings--Once more farewell--The telegraph clerk--The Mj?sen Lake--The Dronningen--Ruined cathedral--Utilitarianism--Lillehammer--Once more in camp 75

Our first camp--Camp visitors--Gipsy music-Foreign tableau--Curious observations--Preparations for departure--Early start--Laing's suggestions--The Gudbransdalen--The Hunnefos--The Australian meat--Camp rules--The pair of gloves--Sudden Shadows--Our talisman--New friends 89

Night alarm--The Puru Rawnee--Donkeys admired--Norwegian ponies--Our gipsy life--Norwegian flowers--Wild forest--The pipe of tobacco--Pictures of imagination--The crippled man--Camp near Holmen--Noah's self-denial--Wet night--Peasant girls' serenade--Zachariah's gaiety--Lovely nature--Norwegian newspaper--The mystery explained--Frokost spoilt 102

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