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Project Gutenberg's The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Author: Various Release Date: May 7, 2008 [EBook #25372] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IDLER MAGAZINE *** Produced by Victorian/Edwardian Pictorial Magazines, Jonathan Ingram, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcribers Notes: Title and Table of Contents added. * * * * * THE IDLER MAGAZINE. AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY. July 1893. * * * * * CONTENTS. THE WOMAN OF THE SAETER. BY JEROME K. JEROME. ALPHONSE DAUDET AT HOME. BY MARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC. THE DISMAL THRONG. BY ROBERT BUCHANAN. IN THE HANDS OF JEFFERSON. BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS. MY FIRST BOOK. BY I. ZANGWILL. BY THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP. BY HILDA NEWMAN. MEMOIRS OF A FEMALE NIHILIST. III.--ONE DAY. BY SOPHIE WASSILIEFF. A SLAVE OF THE RING. BY ALFRED BERLYN. PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER MET. BY SCOTT RANKIN. THE IDLER'S CLUB "TIPPING." * * * * * [Illustration: THE VENGEANCE OF HUND.] _The Woman of the Saeter._ BY JEROME K. JEROME. ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. S. BOYD. ----- Wild-Reindeer stalking is hardly so exciting a sport as the evening's verandah talk in Norroway hotels would lead the trustful traveller to suppose. Under the charge of your guide, a very young man with the dreamy, wistful eyes of those who live in valleys, you leave the farmstead early in the forenoon, arriving towards twilight at the desolate hut which, for so long as you remain upon the uplands, will be your somewhat cheerless headquarters. Next morning, in the chill, mist-laden dawn you rise; and, after a breakfast of coffee and dried fish, shoulder your Remington, and step forth silently into the raw, damp air; the guide locking the door behind you, the key grating harshly in the rusty lock. For hour after hour you toil
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