Reminiscences of Halsten Muri (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... SOME SEA TROUT FISHING IN NORWAY One of the greatest of Norway's charms is that much of that beautiful country so far has escaped what we are pleased to call civilisation. Although some of the more famous "sights" are overrun with tourists and "Midnight Sunners," who carry noise and vulgarity wherever they go, there are many lovely spots more or less secluded, and where huge hotels with German waiters are not to be found. If you will take a local steamer from Bergen up to the Northern Fjords and disembark at the entrance of one of the side fjords, which branch off from the main channel, you are certain to find peace and quietness in the midst of lovely scenery, and if you are A Paper read by Mr. J. Arthur Hutton before the Manchester Angler's Association, March 15th, 1904. lucky, a glorious rushing little river full of salmon and sea-trout waiting to be caught. By chance last year I heard of such a spot, and when the steamer had deposited us on the pier with our belongings and we saw her steaming away to Bergen, we felt that at last we had shaken the trammels of civilisation off our backs. Our gillie and good friend Halsten Muri had joined us further up the main fjord, and I must say one word as to his numerous good qualities. Fully six feet tall and although over sixty years of age, he is as nimble as a goat and always ready and active, and apparently can do everything from reknotting a cast or tying on a fly to cobbling one's shoes. His English is excellent, for every season during the last half-century he has acted as gillie to English fishermen. Though like many of his countrymen he has the usual idea that the Englishman's pocket is lined with gold, at the same time he is most ready to appreciate any little kindness and the first to protest if anyone ...