Identifier: picturesintyrol00tuck (find matches)
Title: Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: (Tuckett, Elizabeth) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ps that hadrashly grasped them, and hands grown cold and rosy inthe contact. A wall bounded the zigzags on our right, and far belowthere was a river dancing in the lightness of its heart—asonly mountain rivers do—because they know all the littlesecrets of the hills, and are in such a terrible hurry to tellthem to the sea. What gossips the Naiads must have been,and how dull they must have thought it to be swallowedby a great overgrown stream, who was only bent on doingits duty and going steadily on its way ! We found manyvillages lying near each other, large and prosperous, withsaw-mills and fabrics. At Eeutte we stopped between three and four oclock,and while dinner was preparing, explored the curiouslittle town, where the houses are all set cornerwise to thestreet, and are rich in coloured faces, pink and white andpale green, and have queer little plethoric shops, withbulged-out windows full of the strangest medley of goods,specimens of coloured glass that have wandered here from
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ffo laih: bcfiatfwalc MOUNTAINEERING IN AN OMNIBUS. 21 Munich manufactories, pipes and rosaries, and crockeryware, useful and ornamental. There was a charmingstork in blown glass, with a great expenditure of yellowpaint on its bill, in which was firmly grasped a e kleinesKind,1 swathed in an extremely tight and uncomfortablemanner, but held with wonderful skill by the admirablebird, who, proud of his trust, balanced himself conceitedlyon one leg and surveyed the world at his leisure. Ofcourse we secured such an interesting illustration of thehabits of the country; but the bird had one disadvantage,he was undeniably brittle, and he and the baby were agreat care during our journey, though we improvised acharming basinette among the frills in the border of Mrs.C.s best bonnet, and had the proud satisfaction of bringingboth nurse and infant in safety to England. For the next few days we lived upon veal, eggs, andmilk, unmitigated KcdbsfLeisch, and eggs boiled and fried,in Omeletten and Pf

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