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Title: Three Vassar girls in Switzerland
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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other silver ornaments,were furnished by the count-ess. Margaret wore the stillmore lavish ornaments of apeasant of Unterwalden.One adjunct of the costumethey did not adopt, — themaple-wood sandals whichslip with every step, andmake a noisy clapping onthe stone pavements. With-out these it was impossibleto realize their wish to passas peasant girls among thepeasants. There were dis-crepancies, too, in their headgear. And as they stoodtogether later, before theporch of the church at Alt-dorf (see Frontispiece), theymade a pretty picture for theJudge to photograph; butevery true peasant knew that they were masquerading. They stopped at the Griitli, which tradition says was the trysting-place of the three patriots of Schwyz who founded the Swiss Confed-eracy ; and then glided on past the Mythenstein, a rock rising fromthe waters of the lake, on which a grateful people have chiselled aninscription in honor of Schiller, who made the name of their hero,William Tell, famous in literature.
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A. SWISS MAIDEN. ii4 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SWITZERLAND. The boat paused for a few moments at the Tellenplatte, wherestands the famous chapel to Tell, on the spot where he is supposed tohave sprung on shore and escaped; but the shrine of the pilgrimagewas the church at Altdorf. All the boats came to anchor at Fluelen;a procession was formed, which proceeded on foot to Altdorf, while those who did not care togjjjjj iiBEi. take part in the procession bestowed themselves in thecarriages, omnibuses, and ve-hicles of every descriptionwhich were in waiting. Allthe village of Altdorf cameout to meet them, singingpatriotic songs and bearinggarlands. Mottoes were dis-played on the fronts of thehouses. Wreaths and gar-lands of evergreen and offlowers were interspersedwith bunting and flutteringribbons. The Schutz Verein,in a sort of Robin Hood^ pK^ costume, carrying cross-bows, ippiiw***5^ came from the gymnasium. tells chapel, lake of lucerne. The Capuchins, in their long brown gowns with knott

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