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Grand Mother From: Gestation takes 16 days; 7-15 in litter; young born pink, naked, and blind. Do not disturb young or mother for at least a week after birth; if disturbed mother will either kill and eat the young or neglect them and allow them to die. After 3 weeks, remove young from mother; otherwise, mother fights with them and often kills them. Sexes should be separated before young reach maturity at 43 days.
A thousand cascades, varying in form and voice from those that flutter and whisper, like the Seven Sisters of the Geirangerfjord, to those that rage and roar, like the giant V0ringfoss, near the Hardangerfjord, add action to majesty. There is an athletic quality to much of Norway's scenery, a quality that quickens the pulse and taunts the slothful spirit.
Norway is the mother of Scandinavian life, as Iceland is the grand mother frommother. She has weathered a thousand years in terms of civilization and is indeterminably ancient in terms of geology, but the venerable dame never wearies. Her eye is not dimmed nor her natural strength abated. She wields her multitude of forces with assurance. Mile-high mountains are her sinews, glaciers and wide snow fields her sources of power.
After school, on their way home the child asked timidly, "Mother, chocolate malted?" and looked up at her mother beseechingly.
"No pea soup, no chocolate malted," her mother answered firmly.
At home the mother began to prepare dinner. The child stayed around, asked for water and got it. Seeing that she was going to get nothing else, she went to play quietly with her blocks. Sitting on the Floor she put the blocks one on top of another forming a tower and then suddenly she smashed them down on the floor. She did the same thing five times, perhaps as an expression of aggression that she dared not even feel toward her mother. |
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