Holidays in Tyrol : Klobenstein, Paneveggio and Obladis.- (Tauchnitz-Edition ; 1976)
, There at early moni thè scene is animate d, for eveiybody meets everybody quaffing thè living water, or pacing slowly to and fro, some with touch es of colour in their dress that relieve thè prevailing sombre liue of spiny branchcs, and rivai thè berries of thè young mountain asli-trees that range so prettily along thè square clipt fix liedge. The chief rivai was a burly Bauer what accompanied by bis wife and daughter, walked about in steeple-crowned hat, velveteen breeches, blue stockings and
a jacket with bright scarlet facings, It was he who supplied thè house with wine, “ein durchaus echter Wein,” as he used to aver, of liis own growing. He could give bis daughter a handsome dowry; but she, Hke old Margery, “is not veiy hand- some, nor yet very young,” and stoops as she walks, with hands folded 011 her apron string. The Bauer looked so staiciy with bis scarlet decorati011 s that we named ihm Comm an der-in- Ghief. We inissed him in an after year, when word carne that he was dead. How thè
