CHAPTER VIII THE ARMY AND NAVY Everybody in Norway, that is every man, has to serve five years in the army, so that every citizen is a soldierthe first year after the twenty-third birthday seventy days, and thirty days or so each year thereafter for four years more.

The sailors and fishermen are enrolled in the navy and must serve aboard a man-of-war at least twelve months.

Norway has a small but efficient navy, composed of third and fourth class cruisers, monitors, small gunboats and torpedo boats, forty-six in all, aggregating 29,000 tons, 53,000 horse-power, carry 174 guns, and manned by 140 officers and 1,000 men.

The navy of Sweden is comparatively small, but for its numerical strength it is probably the most effective in the world.

Hence in the case of war, the navy could be recruited indefinitely with competent men.

King Oscar took a deep personal interest in naval affairs, because his early life was spent in the navy, his commission as lieutenant bearing the date of June 19, 1845.

In his lifetime, the Czar Alexander III was particularly fond of holding long talks at Fredensborg with his nephew Karl, then a lieutenant of the navy, whom he found especially intelligent and open-minded.

Nor could anything have been devised better calculated to knock the nonsense out of a princeling than apprenticeship in the Danish navy.

One of the foremost of Swedish composers, A.F. Lindblad, taught him the latter, while his fondness for the former was richly satisfied during the years when he worked his way through the ranks of the Swedish navy.

Thus, in the face of the drudgery and poverty of the competitive system, Carlyle proposed, with the grim satire of Swift's "Modest Proposal," to organize an annual hunt in which successful people should shoot the unfortunate, and to use the game for the support of the army and navy.

In so far as I can see, we have here at present a truly model army and navy: not however, I fear, a cheap one.

They governed only four years; yet, under their auspices, the conquests of Ireland and Scotland were achieved, and a navy was [Footnote 1: See the several accounts in Whitelock, 554; Ludlow, ii. 19 23; Leicester's Journal, 139; Hutchinson, 332; Several Proceedings, No. 186, and Burton's Diary, iii. 98.]

; but the latter adds that many doubt whether it ever took place at all.] navy, from one hundred congregational churches, and from the boroughs, cities, and counties.

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