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common perversions. I do not at all refer to the
rank or the wealth of the visitors, but simply to
their intelligence and conduct.
English society in Norway, whether it be made
up of the occasional two or three visitors one
meets at an ordinary roadside station, or one’s
fellow passengers in the packets, or the exceptional
accumulations at such places as Aak and the city
hotels, is usually exceptionally good, not merely
because it includes many of the aristocracy, but
because Norwegian travelling effects a sifting
process, or what Darwin calls “ natural selection."
Vulgar snobs, who bully the waiters, sip their
soup and then send it back with a sneer, who
find fault with the “ cuisine,” abuse the wine,
merely to proclaim their superiority ; ill-taught
imbeciles, who advertise their high culture by
pumping their h’s, affecting the “ dwal ” of the
imaginary “ bloated awistocwat,” and all the
allied genera of social impostors, are snuffed out
before they have spent a week in Norway, and
speedily return home, never to revisit the land of
fladbrod.
This blessed consummation is effected by the
admirable treatment to which the travelling: snob is
subjected by the hotel keepers, and more especially
by the bonders, who are proprietors of the stations
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