Excerpt from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun The hostile parties had played at war so long that they had forgotten that it was play and now were actually inspired with the emotions which they had formerly simulated. Under the leader ship of their Chieftains, Halvor Reitan and Viggo Hook, they held councils of war, sent out scouts, planned midnight surprises, and fought at times mimic battles. I say mimic battles, because no one was ever killed but broken heads and bruised limbs many a one carried home from these engagements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.