A careful bathing of the wound with cold water was the only remedy he would use, and in fact no other was needed.
"Thanks, my friends, thanks!" he exclaimed, "this is far better than drugs.

And now do you know that but for your timely arrival upon the scene of action, I should have become much too well acquainted with the wonders of the Rjukanfos! I should have rolled down into the abyss like a big stone, and have added another legend to those already associated with the Maristien.

And there was no excuse for me.

My betrothed was not waiting for me upon the opposite bank as in the case of poor Eystein!" "And what a terrible thing it would have been to Madame Hogg!" exclaimed Hulda.

"She would never have got over it." "Madame Hogg!" repeated the professor.