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Title: Past and present at the English lakes
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Rawnsley, H. D. (Hardwicke Drummond), 1851-1920 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: Glasgow, J. MacLehose and sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Hochnissl, they looked
westward and saw Grassmoor and Catbels. But
to men accustomed to such heights as Hochnissl or
Kellerjoch, our Lakeland hills must indeed have
seemed but playthings, and the straight, rushing
grey torrent of the Inn at the town bridge woul
dmake Greta or Derwent appear but as their little
Landbach by comparison.
Suddenly, from the village of Wear on the one
side and of Stans on the other, shots were heard.
I said, " Surely they must be blasting in the
quarries, for the shots were evidently timed. "
" No, " said my host, those are guns fired for
St. Peter and St. Paul. It is a village fête day. "
Peasants strolled in. They too had been down
from the mountain to early service, and restin
ghere halfway to their homes, took their Tyrolese
wine and a crust of bread, and talked sadly of the
Anarchist plot at Sarrajevo and its dastardly double
murder.
I went up after breakfast by the little grassy pat
hat the back of the inn to the Castle. I felt how
curiously wanting in reverence it was, and yet
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THE PARISCH CHURCH, SCHWAZ.

GERMAN MINERS IN TYROL 97

how well intended, that the plumber should
have pierced the body of our Saviour, Who
stands in plaster under a covered shrine, with a
long brass water pipe, from which was continually
flowing water for the wayfarer. It would have
been quite easy to have allowed the water to come
from a pipe at His feet, but this piercing of the
body for a two foot brass pipe was repugnant tome.
Two chapels were on the Tower Green. In the
lesser one of which, on either side of the altar,
were roughly-painted life-size statues of a St. John
supporting the fainting Virgin, and a Pieta, saying,
' Behold the Man! ' The carving of these figures
was well conceived and bold ; the painting, evi-
dently of later date, as bad as it could be.
In the larger chapel there was nothing of beauty,
and the only interest lay in the vast iron guard for
the alms box, which was let in to a hollow pillar of
black granite. This chapel was attached to the
Castle, now a jumble of cottages between it and
the great tower.

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