Identifier: germanypainted00dick (find matches)
Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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red or green or blue, their heads covered withpeculiarly folded caps of white linen, at work inthe fields. A troop of children on their way toschool doff their caps to us as they pass, but do notinterrupt their singing of the German nationalanthem. At the next farm children throw littlebouquets of wild flowers into our laps, and holdout their hands for the expected groschen. We enter the royal forest, which is the glory ofthe Spreewald. The note of the cuckoo strikesupon the ear. Swans, w41d ducks, storks, plover,swallows and song-birds flit past us or fly over ourheads. At times a beautiful roe or even a little herdof deer peep at us through the bushes. Giant elms,ash and beech trees, whose intertwining branchesform a Gothic arch over our heads, line our path.They are mirrored on the surface of the water.We look down into its depths to see a world ofbeauty reflected as clearly as in the famous ShadowRiver of Northern Muskoka, the Canadian land ofa thousand lakes. RRESLAU—TOWN HALL
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m THE SPREEWALD—AN INLAND VENICE 199 After a most delightful journey we arrive atBurg. The next morning is Sunday, and we arepoled to church. It is a large building, with adouble tier of galleries reserved for the men. Athousand costumed Spreewald women sit in thebody of the church. Their many-coloured dressesare quite overshadowed by the white folded head-dresses, that make them appear like a vast flock ofswans. At the close of the service a baptismfollows. The baby is brought in on a white silkcushion, the sponsors stand round the parents,and when the sacred rite is administered each oneputs a hand under the cushion, thus supporting thechild to the end of the service. A funeral in the Spreewald is still more im-pressive. The boat which carried him to school,to market, and to church becomes the hearsewhich carries him on his last journey. The womenhave added long white scarves to their dailycostume, and look like a procession of sheetedghosts, as slowly they follow the boat with it

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