ty, but varies in expression according to circumstances.
The sum of four cents at the end of an hour's journey gives it an
extremely amiable and intelligent cast. Some boys are constitutionally
knowing, and have a quick, sharp look; others again are dull and
stolid, as naturally happens wherever there is a variety of boys born
of different parents. For the most part, they are exceedingly bright
and lively little fellows. Mounted on their seat of honor at the back
of the cariole, they greatly enliven the way by whistling and singing,
and asking questions in their native tongue, which it is sometimes
very difficult to answer when one is not familiar with the language.

I had at Moshuus a communicative little boy, who talked to me
incessantly all the way to Holmen without ever discovering, so far as
I could perceive, that I did not understand a single word he said.
Another, after repeated efforts to draw me out, fell into a fit of
moody silence, and from that into a profound slumber, which was only
broken off toward the end of our journey by an accident. The cariole
struck against a stone and tilted him out on the road. He was a good
deal surprised, but said nothing.

Another little fellow, not more than six or seven years of age--a
pretty fair-haired child--was sent with me over a very wild and
broken stage of the journey. He was newly dressed in a suit of gray
frieze with brass buttons, and was evidently a shining light at home.
On the road a dog ran out from the bushes and barked at us. The poor
little skydskaarl was frantic with terror, and cried so lustily that I
had to take him into the cariole, and put him under my legs to keep
him from going into fits. He bellowed all the way to the next station,
where I endeavored to make the inn-keeper understand that it was cruel
to send so small a boy on such a hazardous journey. The man laughed
and said "Ja! he is too little!" which was all I could get out of him.
I felt unhappy about this poor child all day.

On another occasion I had a bright, lively little fellow about twelve
years of age, who was so pleased to find that I was an American that
he stopped every body on the road to tell them this important piece of
news, so that it took me about three hours to go a distance of seven
or eight miles. There was a light of intelligence in the boy's face
that enabled me to comprehend him almost by instinct, and the
quickness with which he caught at my half-formed words, and gath