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Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ntinued when they are sick, and whenthey grow too old to work. Every year three million dollars worth of ribbonis shipped from Basle to America. In the cottages around Geneva, the work tables of the watchmakers take the place of ribbon-weavers looms. There are also large factories in the city where girls and women are employed. The girls first learn to make every h part of the watch, and then select the part that they can do best, for their life work. One womans only work will perhaps be to drill little holes in thesmall steel plates, anothers, to make a slight change in the shape of the holesalready drilled. The Guides.—Many of the men of Switzerland find employment in act- Switzerland. 291 ing as guides to tourists. The work is difficult and dangerous and theirhardy courage is often put to the test. The sight of a man in peril rousesthem to super-human efforts for his relief, and a disaster fills them with grief. Prof. Tyndal became much attached to a guide by the name of Brennen,
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MOUNTAIN GUIDE. and tells the following story about his efforts to rescue a man from a crev-asse in a glacier. As Prof. Tyndal, accompanied by two other gentlemen, and the guideBrennen, were proceeding along the Aletsch glacier they saw a man stand- 292 Persons and Places in Europe. ing perfectly still some little distance ahead of them. They thought noth-ing of it at first, but as they approached, they saw that it was one of theporters they had sent on ahead of them with provisions. As they came upto him he neither moved nor spoke, and seemed dazed. When asked whatthe matter was, he replied that his companion was killed. They askedwhere he was and he nodded toward a crevasse just before them. Butwhen asked how he knew the man was dead, he only muttered that he waskilled. Brennen had meanwhile been growing very much excited, and rush-ing to the brink of the crevasse, would have jumped recklessly in if Prof.Tyndal had not held him back. They listened and heard a faint moan.This increas

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