A Summer in Norway With Notes On the Industries Habits Customs And Peculiari
A Summer in Norway With Notes On the Industries Habits Customs And Peculiari
John Dean Caton
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It had two rooms, separated by a little hall, in each of which was a stove instead of a fireplace. One of these rooms had been cleaned up for our reception and looked quite inviting. In this were two chairs, some stools and a table, besides a loom at which a girl was weaving a piece of coarse cloth for domestic use. The loom was similar to that which I used to see in my boyhood in farmers' houses at the East, but which are now almost entirely banished from the land. Another girl was carding the... wool into rolls and spinning it on a small wheel ; the cards were the same as those common many years ago in this country for carding tow and cotton, before machinery had rendered such excellent utensils unnecessary, and the wheel 244 A SUMMER IN NORWAY. was nearly the same as our mothers used for spinning flax. All these were tried by each one of the party in turn, but of course with universal failure ; but the native girls were expert, and evidently enjoyed the encomiums bestowed upon their skill.
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