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John Ingerfield and Other Stories by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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At the head he carves in bas-relief the figure of the good Samaritan
tending the brother fallen by the way, and underneath the letters,
"In Remembrance of John Ingerfield."

He thinks to put a verse of Scripture immediately after; but the
gruff doctor says, "Better leave a space, in case you want to add
another name."

So the stone remains a little while unfinished; till the same hand
carves thereon, a few weeks later, "And of Anne, his Wife."




THE WOMAN OF THE SAETER.



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
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