However amusing your conversation may be, you should refrain from chattering during a long climb. Not everybody’s wind or everybody’s temper is perfect.
You will not add to your popularity on tour by continually accepting hospitality at the hands of others, especially if your water-bottle be small, and you carry no repairing outfit.
You should pay up punctually, and without demur, to the man who finances a touring party; it is at least ten to one that he is out of pocket, anyway.
It is a gross breach of manners to tread on the back of another man’s ski. You should at once apologise and fall back five yards.
You should not come plumping over a jump which others have been at some pains to construct, without first asking their leave, and it is always your solemn duty to repair as well as possible any damage you may occasion to the track.
Unless you are really a very good runner, it is better not to imitate too closely the Norwegian style of dress. People may be disappointed.
Always be polite in your dealings with foreigners, and you will seldom have cause to complain of their want of manners.
SOME USEFUL FIGURES.
| 1 inch | = ·0254 metres | 1 metre | = 39·370 inches[11] |
| 1 foot | = ·3048 metres | ″ | = 3·280 feet |
| 1 yard | = ·9144 metres | ″ | = 1·0933 yards |
| 1000 metres | = 3280 feet | 1 kilometre | = 1093·3 yards |
| 1000 feet | = 304·8 metres | 8 kilometres | = 4·969 miles |
| ″ | = 5 miles, less 50 yards |
| £4 | = 100 francs | 100 francs | = 80 /- |
| 4- | = 5 francs | 5 francs | = 4/- |
| 1/- | = 1·25 francs | 1 franc | = -/9½ about |