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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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teaux crowning the wooded hills, cloisters half hiddenamong the trees, churches with slender spires, colourednow deep red, now emerald green, according to the tasteof the parishioners, cosy little villages nestled at the footof the pine woods or on the summits of the lower slopes,the long lines of rail running close to the swift-flowingriver, or crossing it over the many bridges on our route.We were travelling on a Whit Monday, and, though de-barred from the delights of c Clubs on the march, orholiday-making Foresters at home, we found each littlestation crowded by peasants in brilliant festa dress, wait-ing to start or watching for travellers. A convoi ofsoldiers passed us ; the men looked in good heart, andthere was a faint attempt at cheering from them and thepeople; but generally, during their transit, the troopsseemed packed into huge vans destitute of windows orany openings in place of them, in which they were pennedlike cattle. While we waited in an empty room at the Worgl sta-
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MOUNTAINEEEING IN AN OMNIBUS. 43 tion, our father and F. hurried to the posthouse near byto secure a carriage. This apartment strongly resembledsimilar ones in England. There was a table and two orthree chairs, and one of those long lists of trains, framedand glazed, on the walls, which you feel helplessly boundto read through from end to end. Altogether, the re-sources at our disposal were of a negative kind. Therewas nothing to be seen from the window but some super-annuated trucks, no provisions of any kind to be foundon the premises, nothing but the table, the chairs, and athorough draught. But we had a certain supply of foodwith us. A tin of biscuits, which were to be kept for anemergency, and some potted meat—prepared in anticipa-tion of a journey in the Dolomites, where, according to re-port, Mehlspeise forms the sole subsistence of the inhabit-ants. This same potted meat gave us the greatest anxiety.It might only be eaten in limited portions till the Dolo-mites were reached;

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