oat to be rowed ashore.

As Froken Helga stepped ashore, where her father and brothers were
waiting for her, she said, "I can understand the boys' enthusiasm for
Herr Hardy; when Lars (the boatman) pointed out a place where a pike
might be, although yards away, the bait was dropped in it and the pike
caught. I wish Herr Hardy would let me see him catch fish on the
Gudenaa with flies."

"We can do that to-morrow evening," said Hardy, "as you cannot get up
at three in the morning, as we are accustomed to do."

"I cannot let little father miss his evening talk with you, Herr
Hardy, and to get up at three in the morning these summer days is no
hardship to me. May I go to-morrow?" asked Helga.

"Certainly, if you wish it," said Hardy.

As they returned home, Karl expressed no wish to ride Buffalo, and
Garth rode it, and Hardy drove his Danish horses.

"I should like to see how you drive; may I come up and sit beside
you?" said Helga.

After they had gone a little way, Hardy said to her, "Take the reins
and drive. I have bought these horses for my mother, and she will
drive them herself, and you can drive them. Draw the reins gently to
the horses' mouths and let them go as you wish them. To slacken speed,
draw the reins firmly but gently, and they will obey."

Helga drove the carriage to the parsonage.

"Little father," said Helga, "I have driven you all the way from the
entrance gate at Rosendal."

"I am glad," said the Pastor, "you did not tell me that before, as I
should have been in great anxiety."

"But Herr Hardy was sitting by me, little father," said Helga, "and
there was no danger when he is near."

CHAPTER XVI.

"The trout and salmon being in season have, at their
first taking out of the water, their bodies adorned with
such red spots, and the other with such black spots, as give
them such an addition of natural beauty as I think was never
given to any woman by artificial paint or patches."
--_The Complete Angler._

John Hardy had tied a couple of casting lines with the flies he
usually fished with on the Gudenaa, and came down a little before
three the next day.

Karl and Axel yet slept, but their sister called them, and after the
accustomed cup of coffee and rusks they went out to fish on the
Gudenaa. Of late Hardy had hired a flat-bottomed boat, and a man
called Nils Nilsen rowed or punted it with a pole, as on the Thames,
or he went ashore on the towing-path