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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Glimpses of Three Coasts - -Author: Helen Hunt Jackson - -Release Date: February 4, 2013 [EBook #42009] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GLIMPSES OF THREE COASTS *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42009 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -434,7 +396,7 @@ that they are plains; the high mountain valleys; the rounded plateaus of the Great Basin, as it is called, of which the Bernardino Mountains are the southern rim; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">5</a></span> -and the river valleys or cañons,—these last running at +and the river valleys or cañons,—these last running at angles to the mountain and shore lines.</p> <p>When the air in these valleys becomes heated by the @@ -451,7 +413,7 @@ belts: the first, along the coast, a narrow one, from one to fifteen miles wide. In this grow some of the deciduous fruits, corn, pumpkins, and grain. Dairy and stock interests flourish. The nearness of the sea makes the air -cool, with fogs at night. There are many <i>ciénagas</i>, or +cool, with fogs at night. There are many <i>ciénagas</i>, or marshy regions, where grass is green all the year round, and water is near the surface everywhere. Citrus fruits do not flourish in this belt, except in sheltered spots at the @@ -473,7 +435,7 @@ is good.</p> and tertiary epochs. The most remarkable thing about them is their great depth. It is not uncommon, in making wells, to find the soil the same to a depth of one -hundred feet; the same thing is to be observed in cañons, +hundred feet; the same thing is to be observed in cañons, cuts, and exposed bluffs on the sea-shore. This accounts for the great fertility of much of the land. Crops are raised year after year, sometimes for twenty successive @@ -1140,7 +1102,7 @@ to Congress of explorations on the Pacific coast in Sierra Nevadas.</p> <p>The bee ranches are always picturesque; they are usually -in cañons or on wooded foot-hills, and their villages of tiny +in cañons or on wooded foot-hills, and their villages of tiny bright-colored hives look like gay Lilliputian encampments. It has appeared to me that men becoming guardians of bees acquire a peculiar calm philosophy, and are superior @@ -1155,7 +1117,7 @@ toward all creatures.</p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span></p> <p>A striking instance of this is to be seen in one of the -most beautiful cañons of the San Gabriel valley, where, +most beautiful cañons of the San Gabriel valley, where, living in a three-roomed, redwood log cabin, with a vine-covered booth in front, is an old man kings might envy.</p> @@ -1165,14 +1127,14 @@ the head of a brook-swept gorge, four fifths precipice and rock. In the two miles between his cabin and the mouth of the gorge, the trail and the brook change sides sixteen times. When the brook is at its best, the trail goes under -altogether, and there is no getting up or down the cañon. +altogether, and there is no getting up or down the cañon. Here, with a village of bees for companions, the old man has lived for a dozen years. While the bees are off at work, he sits at home and weaves, out of the gnarled stems and roots of manzanita and laurels, curious baskets, chairs, and brackets, for which he finds ready market in Los Angeles. He knows every tree and shrub in the -cañon, and has a fancy for collecting specimens of all the +cañon, and has a fancy for collecting specimens of all the native woods of the region. These he shapes into paper-cutters, and polishes them till they are like satin. He came from Ohio forty years ago, and has lived in a score @@ -1368,7 +1330,7 @@ to pose and stand, even in the most difficult attitudes, as long as was required. Those who had done so asked, like children, if their names could not be put in the book; so I wrote them all down: "Juan Canero, Juan Rivera, -Felipe Ybara, José Jesus Lopez, and Domingo Garcia." +Felipe Ybara, José Jesus Lopez, and Domingo Garcia." The space they will fill is a little thing to give; and there is a satisfaction in the good faith of printing them, though the shearers will most assuredly never know it.</p> @@ -1467,7 +1429,7 @@ acres as a small one.</p> <p>Ten years ago this ranch was a bare, desolate sheep ranch,—not a tree on it, excepting the oaks and sycamores -in the cañons. To-day it has twelve hundred acres +in the cañons. To-day it has twelve hundred acres under high cultivation; and driving from field to field, orchard to orchard, one drives, if he sees the whole of the ranch, over eleven miles of good made road. There are @@ -1501,11 +1463,11 @@ By curves and bends and sharp turns, all the time with new views, and new colors from changes of crop, with exquisite glimpses of the sea shot through here and there, it finally, at the end of a mile, reaches the brink of an -oak-canopied cañon. In the mouth of this cañon stands +oak-canopied cañon. In the mouth of this cañon stands the house, fronting south on a sunny meadow and garden space, walled in on three sides by eucalyptus trees.</p> -<p>To describe the oak kingdom of this cañon would be +<p>To describe the oak kingdom of this cañon would be to begin far back of all known kingdoms of the country. The branches are a network of rafters upholding roof canopies of boughs and leaves so solid that the sun's rays @@ -1513,13 +1475,13 @@ pierce them only brokenly, making on the ground a dancing carpet of brown and gold flecks even in winter, and in summer a shade lighted only by starry glints.</p> -<p>Farther up the cañon are sycamores, no less stately +<p>Farther up the cañon are sycamores, no less stately than the oaks, their limbs gnarled and twisted as if they had won their places by splendid wrestle.</p> -<p>These oak-and-sycamore-filled cañons are the most -beautiful of the South California cañons; though the -soft, chaparral-walled cañons would, in some lights, press +<p>These oak-and-sycamore-filled cañons are the most +beautiful of the South California cañons; though the +soft, chaparral-walled cañons would, in some lights, press them hard for supremacy of place. Nobody will ever, by pencil or brush or pen, fairly render the beauty of the mysterious, undefined, undefinable chaparral. Matted, @@ -1528,19 +1490,19 @@ All botany may be exhausted in describing it in one place, and it will not avail you in another. But in all places, and made up of whatever hundreds of shrubs it may be, it is the most exquisite carpet surface that Nature has to -show for mountain fronts or cañon sides. Not a color +show for mountain fronts or cañon sides. Not a color that it does not take; not a bloom that it cannot rival; a bank of cloud cannot be softer, or a bed of flowers more varied of hue. Some day, between 1900 and 2000, when South California is at leisure and has native artists, she -will have an artist of cañons, whose life and love and +will have an artist of cañons, whose life and love and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span> work will be spent in picturing them,—the royal oak canopies; the herculean sycamores; the chameleon, velvety chaparral; and the wild, throe-built, water-quarried rock gorges, with their myriad ferns and flowers.</p> -<p>At the head of Mr. Cooper's cañon are broken and jutting +<p>At the head of Mr. Cooper's cañon are broken and jutting sandstone walls, over three hundred feet high, draped with mosses and ferns and all manner of vines. I saw the dainty thalictrum, with its clover-like leaves, standing @@ -1755,7 +1717,7 @@ I had a whole forest of such Junipers!"</p> <p>Studying in the Majorca Convent at the same time with Serra, were three other young monks, beloved and -intimate companions of his,—Palon, Verger, and Crespí. +intimate companions of his,—Palon, Verger, and CrespÃ. The friendship thus early begun never waned; and the hearty and loving co-operation of the four had much to do with the success of the great enterprises in which @@ -1771,7 +1733,7 @@ in 1749, there assembled in Cadiz a great body of missionaries, destined chiefly for Mexico; and Serra and Palon received permission to join the band. Arriving at Cadiz, and finding two vacancies still left in the party, they pleaded -warmly that Crespí and Verger be allowed to go also. At +warmly that Crespà and Verger be allowed to go also. At the very last moment this permission was given, and the four friends joyfully set sail in the same ship.</p> @@ -1885,7 +1847,7 @@ city of Mexico. Galvez tried in vain to detain him; he said he would rather die on the road than not go, but that he should not die, for the Lord would carry him through. However, on the second day out, his pain became so great -that he could neither sit, stand, nor sleep. Portalá, the +that he could neither sit, stand, nor sleep. Portalá, the military commander of the party, implored him to be carried in a litter; but this he could not brook. Calling one of the muleteers to him, he said,—</p> @@ -1914,8 +1876,8 @@ the suffering as a cross, allowed the trouble to be aggravated in every way, by going without shoes or stockings and by taking long journeys on foot.</p> -<p>A diary kept by Father Crespí on his toilsome march -from Velicatá to San Diego is full of quaint and curious entries, +<p>A diary kept by Father Crespà on his toilsome march +from Velicatá to San Diego is full of quaint and curious entries, monotonous in its religious reiterations, but touching <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span> in its simplicity and unconscious testimony to his own @@ -1965,7 +1927,7 @@ bearing the names of the heroic men—friars and soldiers of Spain—who on that spot, on May 14, 1769, sang the first Easter hymn heard on California shores.</p> -<p>It was a sore grief for Father Crespí that the commandant +<p>It was a sore grief for Father Crespà that the commandant of the party would not wait here for him to say a mass of thanksgiving; but with the port in sight, impatience could not be restrained, and the little band pushed @@ -1998,9 +1960,9 @@ was founded the Mission of San Diego; and thus was laid the corner-stone of the civilization of California on July 16, 1769.</p> -<p>Two days before this the indefatigable Crespí had set off -with another overland party, Portalá at its head, to find -Monterey. On this journey, also, Father Crespí kept a +<p>Two days before this the indefatigable Crespà had set off +with another overland party, Portalá at its head, to find +Monterey. On this journey, also, Father Crespà kept a diary,—little suspecting, probably, with how much interest it would be studied a century later. It was not strange that with only a compass and seventeenth-century @@ -2028,7 +1990,7 @@ time seventeen of the party were too ill to travel. Twice they halted and held council on the question of abandoning the search. Some were ready to continue as long as the provisions held out, then to eat their mules, and go back -on foot. Fathers Crespí and Gomez volunteered to be +on foot. Fathers Crespà and Gomez volunteered to be left behind alone.</p> <p>At last, on the 11th of November, it was decided to @@ -2071,8 +2033,8 @@ could not be conceived than that of this little, suffering band, separated by leagues of desert and leagues of ocean from all possible succor. At last an examination showed that there were only provisions sufficient left to subsist the -party long enough to make the journey back to Velicatá. -It seemed madness to remain longer; and Governor Portalá, +party long enough to make the journey back to Velicatá. +It seemed madness to remain longer; and Governor Portalá, spite of Father Junipero's entreaties, gave orders to prepare for the abandonment of the missions. He fixed the 20th of March as the last day he would wait for the @@ -2087,7 +2049,7 @@ of the relief-ship must have produced on the minds of devout men who had been starving. The ship appeared for a few moments, then disappeared; doubtless there were some who scoffed at it as a mere apparition. But -Portalá believed, and waited; and, four days later, in the +Portalá believed, and waited; and, four days later, in the ship came!—the "San Antonio," bringing bountiful stores of all that was needed.</p> @@ -2096,7 +2058,7 @@ was lost in organizing expeditions to go once more in search of the mysteriously hidden Monterey. In less than three weeks two parties had set off,—one by sea in the "San Antonio." With this went Father Junipero, still feeble -from illness. Father Crespí, undaunted by his former +from illness. Father CrespÃ, undaunted by his former <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">40</a></span> six months of wandering, joined the land party, reaching the Point of Pines, on Monterey Harbor, seven days @@ -2391,8 +2353,8 @@ in the work. The San Carlos Mission at Monterey was Father Junipero's own charge. There he spent all his time, when not called away by his duties as president of the missions. There he died, and there he was buried. -There, also, his beloved friend and brother, Father Crespí, -labored by his side for thirteen years. Crespí was a sanguine, +There, also, his beloved friend and brother, Father CrespÃ, +labored by his side for thirteen years. Crespà was a sanguine, joyous man, sometimes called El Beato, from his happy temperament. No doubt his gayety made Serra's sunshine in many a dark day; and grief at his death did @@ -2400,7 +2362,7 @@ much to break down the splendid old man's courage and strength. Only a few months before it occurred, they had gone together for a short visit to their comrade, Father Palon, at the San Francisco Mission. When they took -leave of him, Crespí said, "Farewell forever; you will +leave of him, Crespà said, "Farewell forever; you will see me no more." This was late in the autumn of 1781, and on New Year's Day, 1782, he died, aged sixty years, and having spent half of those years in laboring for the @@ -2453,7 +2415,7 @@ hymn "Tantum Ergo,"—</p> <p class="pi1">Veneremur cernui,</p> <p>Et antiquum documentum</p> <p class="pi1">Novo cedat ritui;</p> -<p>Præstet fides supplementum</p> +<p>Præstet fides supplementum</p> <p class="pi1">Sensuum defectui.</p> </div> <div class="stanza"> @@ -2653,7 +2615,7 @@ journey apart from each other.</p> <p>The ten new missions were founded in the following order: Santa Barbara, Dec. 4, 1786; La Purissima, Dec. 8, 1787; Santa Cruz, Sept. 25, 1791; Soledad, Oct. 9, -1791; San José, June 11, 1797; San Juan Bautista, +1791; San José, June 11, 1797; San Juan Bautista, June 24, 1797; San Miguel, July 25, 1797; San Fernando Rey, Sept. 8, 1797; San Luis Rey de Francia, June 18, 1798; Santa Inez, Sept. 7, 1804.</p> @@ -2688,7 +2650,7 @@ and industrious lives, and conforming to the usages of the Catholic religion.</p> <p>A description of the San Luis Rey Mission, written by -De Mofras, an <i>attaché</i> of the French Legation in Mexico +De Mofras, an <i>attaché</i> of the French Legation in Mexico <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">53</a></span> in 1842, gives a clear idea of the form, and some of the methods, of the mission establishments:—</p> @@ -2696,7 +2658,7 @@ methods, of the mission establishments:—</p> <div class="blockquot"> <p> "The building is a quadrilateral, four hundred and fifty feet -square; the church occupies one of its wings; the façade is ornamented +square; the church occupies one of its wings; the façade is ornamented with a gallery. The building is two stories in height. The interior is formed by a court ornamented with fountains, and decorated with trees. Upon the gallery which runs around @@ -2834,7 +2796,7 @@ to go about on foot.</p> <p>The friars were forced, by the very facts of their situation, into the exercise of a constant and abounding hospitality; and this of itself inevitably brought about large -departures from the ascetic <i>régime</i> of living originally +departures from the ascetic <i>régime</i> of living originally preached and practised. Most royally did they discharge the obligations of this hospitality. Travellers' rooms were <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a></span> @@ -3063,7 +3025,7 @@ on or evolve out of savagery anything like civilization.</p> <p>Aiming towards this completing of their colonization <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span> plan, the Spanish Government had very early founded the -pueblos of Los Angeles and San José. A second class of +pueblos of Los Angeles and San José. A second class of pueblos, called, in the legal phrase of California's later days, "Presidial Pueblos," had originated in the settlement of the presidios, and gradually grown up around @@ -3310,7 +3272,7 @@ wanted to eat, and the <i>padres</i> were so good and kind: "Bueno tiempo! Bueno tiempo," they say, with a hopeless sigh and shake of the head.</p> -<p>Under the new <i>régime</i> the friars suffered hardly less +<p>Under the new <i>régime</i> the friars suffered hardly less than the Indians. Some fled the country, unable to bear the humiliations and hardships of their positions under the control of the administrators or majors-domo, and @@ -3752,7 +3714,7 @@ Franciscans, the only one remaining in their possession. It is now called a college for apostolic missionary work, and there are living within its walls eight members of the order. One of them is very old,—a friar of the ancient -<i>régime</i>; his benevolent face is well known throughout the +<i>régime</i>; his benevolent face is well known throughout the country, and there are in many a town and remote hamlet men and women who wait always for his coming before they will make confession. He is like St. Francis's first @@ -4007,7 +3969,7 @@ this unfortunate race." of Tulare, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego over fifteen thousand Indians who had been connected with the missions in those counties. They were classified -as the Tulareños, Cahuillas, San Luiseños, and Diegueños, +as the Tulareños, Cahuillas, San Luiseños, and Diegueños, the latter two being practically one nation, speaking one language, and being more generally Christianized than the others. They furnished, Mr. Wilson says, "the majority @@ -4351,7 +4313,7 @@ one are now living the robber whites, who have driven the Indians out; only one Indian still remains in the valley. He earns a meagre living for himself and family by doing day's work for the farmers who have taken his land. The -rest of the Indians are hidden away in the cañons and rifts +rest of the Indians are hidden away in the cañons and rifts of the near hills,—wherever they can find a bit of ground to keep a horse or two and raise a little grain. They have sought the most inaccessible spots, reached often by miles @@ -4360,7 +4322,7 @@ hunted wild beasts. The Catholic priest of San Diego is much beloved by them. He has been their friend for many years. When he goes to hold service, they gather from their various hiding-places and refuges; sometimes, -on a special <i>fête</i> day, over two hundred come. But on +on a special <i>fête</i> day, over two hundred come. But on the day I was there, the priest being a young man who was a stranger to them, only a few were present. It was a pitiful sight. The dilapidated adobe building, empty @@ -4453,7 +4415,7 @@ establishments, one gazes with double grief on such a spectacle as this. Some of these Indian hovels are within a short distance of the beach where the friars first landed, in 1769, and began their work. No doubt, Father Junipero -and Father Crespí, arm in arm, in ardent converse, +and Father CrespÃ, arm in arm, in ardent converse, full of glowing anticipation of the grand future results of their labors, walked again and again, up and down, on the very spot where these miserable wretches are living to-day. @@ -4559,10 +4521,10 @@ the driving out of these Saboba families as the Temeculas and San Pasquales were driven,—by force, just as truly as if at the point of the bayonet.</p> -<p>In one of the beautiful cañons opening on this valley is +<p>In one of the beautiful cañons opening on this valley is the home of Victoriano, an aged chief of the band. He is living with his daughter and grandchildren, in a comfortable -adobe house at the head of the cañon. The vineyard +adobe house at the head of the cañon. The vineyard and peach orchard which his father planted there, are in good bearing. His grandson Jesus, a young man twenty years old, in the summer of 1881 ploughed up and planted @@ -4608,7 +4570,7 @@ quiet and industrious people?</p> <p>Hoping that we may have justice done us, I am</p> <p class="left45">Respectfully yours,<br /> -<span class="smcap i4">José Jesus Castillo</span>.</p> +<span class="smcap i4">José Jesus Castillo</span>.</p> </div> <p>He was at first unwilling to write it, fearing he should @@ -4782,7 +4744,7 @@ rawhide; the whole place was full of chilly gloom, in sharp contrast to the bright valley outside, with its sunlight and silence. This mass was for the soul of an old Indian woman named Margarita, sister of Manuelito, a somewhat -famous chief of several bands of the San Luiseños. +famous chief of several bands of the San Luiseños. Her home was at the Potrero,—a mountain meadow, or pasture, as the word signifies,—about ten miles from Pala, high up the mountain-side, and reached by an almost @@ -5020,7 +4982,7 @@ city named it at their leisure with a long name, musical as a chime of bells. It answered well enough, no doubt, for the first fifty years of the city's life, during which not a municipal record of any sort or kind was written,—"Nuestra -Señora Reina de los Angeles," "Our Lady the +Señora Reina de los Angeles," "Our Lady the Queen of the Angels;" and her portrait made a goodly companion flag, unfurled always by the side of the flag of Spain.</p> @@ -5412,7 +5374,7 @@ pink, and down to dark mahogany; but the forms are grotesque beyond comparison: twists, querls, contortions, a boxful of them is an uncomfortable presence in one's room, and putting them on the fire is like cremating the -vertebræ and double teeth of colossal monsters of the +vertebræ and double teeth of colossal monsters of the Pterodactyl period.</p> <p>The present plaza of the city is near the original plaza @@ -5472,7 +5434,7 @@ more of Los Angeles than its lovely outward semblances and mysterious suggestions, unless he have the good fortune to win past the barrier of proud, sensitive, tender reserve, behind which is hid the life of the few remaining -survivors of the old Spanish and Mexican <i>régime</i>.</p> +survivors of the old Spanish and Mexican <i>régime</i>.</p> <p>Once past this, he gets glimpses of the same stintless hospitality and immeasurable courtesy which gave to the @@ -5783,7 +5745,7 @@ delicate sensitive nostrils, and broad smiling mouth, are all of the Spanish madonna type; and when her low brow is bound, as is often her wont, by turban folds of soft brown or green gauze, her face becomes a picture indeed. -She is the young wife of a gray-headed Mexican señor, of +She is the young wife of a gray-headed Mexican señor, of whom—by his own most gracious permission—I shall speak by his familiar name, Don Antonio. Whoever has the fortune to pass as a friend across the threshold of this @@ -5801,7 +5763,7 @@ moments' call. I stayed three hours, and left carrying with me bewildering treasures of pictures of the olden time.</p> -<p>Don Antonio speaks little English; but the señora +<p>Don Antonio speaks little English; but the señora knows just enough of the language to make her use of it delicious, as she translates for her husband. It is an entrancing sight to watch his dark, weather-beaten face, full @@ -5967,7 +5929,7 @@ intention of becoming a priest, and began his studies at once. These he faithfully pursued for a year, leading all the while a life of great devotion. At the end of that time preparations were made for his ordination at San -José. The day was set, the hour came: he was in the +José. The day was set, the hour came: he was in the sacristy, had put on the sacred vestments, and was just going toward the church door, when he fell to the floor, dead. Soon after this the juggler was banished from the @@ -5996,7 +5958,7 @@ company of men and boys to meet them. He had but one cannon, a small one, tied by ropes on a cart axle. He had but one small keg of powder which was good for anything; all the rest was bad, would merely go off "pouf, pouf," -the señora said, and the ball would pop down near the +the señora said, and the ball would pop down near the mouth of the cannon. With this bad powder he fired his first shots. The Americans laughed; this is child's play, they said, and pushed on closer. Then came a good shot, @@ -6008,7 +5970,7 @@ their flag behind them. And if they had only known it, the Californians had only one more charge left of the good powder, and the next minute it would have been the Californians that would have had to run away -themselves," merrily laughed the señora as she told the +themselves," merrily laughed the señora as she told the tale.</p> <p>This captured flag, with important papers, was intrusted @@ -6158,7 +6120,7 @@ orange-tree, on which were hanging at this time twenty-five hundred oranges, ripe and golden among the glossy leaves. Under this tree my carriage always waited for me. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">128</a></span> -The señora never allowed me to depart without bringing +The señora never allowed me to depart without bringing to me, in the carriage, farewell gifts of flowers and fruit: clusters of grapes, dried and fresh; great boughs full of oranges, more than I could lift. As I drove away thus, @@ -6434,7 +6396,7 @@ In an hour, driving up on the hills to the west, one finds himself in wildernesses of woods: spruce, maple, cedar, and pine; dogwood, wild syringa, honeysuckle, ferns and brakes fitting in for undergrowth; and below all, white -clover matting the ground. By the roadsides are Linnæa, +clover matting the ground. By the roadsides are Linnæa, red clover, yarrow, May-weed, and dandelion, looking to New England eyes strangely familiar and unfamiliar at once. Never in New England woods and roadsides do @@ -6549,7 +6511,7 @@ course.</p> <p>As we approached the Cascade Mountains, the scenery grew grander with every mile. The river cuts through this -range in a winding cañon, whose sides for a space of four +range in a winding cañon, whose sides for a space of four or five miles are from three to four thousand feet high. But the charm of this pass is not so much in the height and grandeur as in the beauty of its walls. They vary in @@ -6700,7 +6662,7 @@ at last I got Jo to take that, jest as a kind o' momento."</p> <p>The old man was greatly indignant to hear that Chief Joseph was in Indian Territory. He had been out of the -State at the time of the Nez Percé war, and had not heard +State at the time of the Nez Percé war, and had not heard of Joseph's fate.</p> <p>"Well, that was a dirty mean trick!" he exclaimed,—"a @@ -6799,7 +6761,7 @@ picked up a salmon, and waving it in her right hand ran swiftly along towards an outjutting point. She was a gay creature, with scarlet fringed leggings, a pale green blanket, and on her head a twisted handkerchief of a fine old -Dürer red. As she poised herself, and braced backwards +Dürer red. As she poised herself, and braced backwards to throw the salmon on deck, she was a superb figure <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">143</a></span> against the sky; she did not throw straight, and the fish @@ -7543,7 +7505,7 @@ near by, where grew that mountain daisy,</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poem"> -<p>"Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flower,"</p> +<p>"Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flower,"</p> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">162</a></span> @@ -8105,7 +8067,7 @@ might have written about such a show! And what would it not have been given to him to say of the "Genius of Coila, finding her favorite son at the plough, and casting her mantle over him,"—that is, the sculptured monument, or, -as the sexton called it, "Máwsolem," under which he has +as the sexton called it, "Máwsolem," under which he has <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">173</a></span> had the misfortune to be buried. A great Malvern bathwoman, bringing a bathing-sheet to an unwilling patient, @@ -9222,8 +9184,8 @@ named Dee and Mersee. Thys cyte in tyme of Britons was hede and chefe cyte of Venedocia, that is North Wales. Thys cyte in Brytyshe speech bete Carthleon, Chestre in Englyshe, and Cyte of Legyons also. For -there laye a wynter, the legyons that Julius Cæsar sent to -wyne Irlonde. And after, Claudius Cæsar sent legyons +there laye a wynter, the legyons that Julius Cæsar sent to +wyne Irlonde. And after, Claudius Cæsar sent legyons out of the cyte for to wynn the Islands that bee called Orcades. Thys cyte hath plenty of cyne land, of corn, of flesh, and specyally of samon. Thys cyte receyveth grate @@ -9486,7 +9448,7 @@ at the outset. These first stories of the ancient Cestrians are beneath the cellars of the Rows to-day; and every now and then, in deepening a vault or cellar-way, workmen come on old Roman altars, built there by the "Legyons" -of Julius, or Claudius Cæsar, dedicated to "Nymphs and +of Julius, or Claudius Cæsar, dedicated to "Nymphs and Fountains," or other genii of the day; baths, too, with their pillars and perforated tiles still in place, as they were in the days when cleanly and luxurious Roman soldiers @@ -9611,7 +9573,7 @@ dull times for a while in Chester; but at last the people contrived an ingenious resuscitation of the old amusements under new names, and with new themes, to which nobody could object. They dramatized old stories, legends, histories -of kings, and the like. The story of Æneas and +of kings, and the like. The story of Æneas and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">205</a></span> Queen Dido was one of the first played. No doubt all the "gyauntes" and hobble-de-horses which had not been @@ -9900,7 +9862,7 @@ My own memory of them was darkened forever,—unreasonably so, perhaps; but the antithesis came too suddenly and soon for me ever to separate the pictures.</p> -<p>The archæologist in Chester will frequently be lured +<p>The archæologist in Chester will frequently be lured from its streets to its still more famous walls. This side Rome there is no such piece of Roman masonry work, to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">211</a></span> @@ -10898,7 +10860,7 @@ women sit crouching in them, selling blueberries and dark bread. One man, clad in sheepskin that looked a hundred years old, I saw trying to sell a bit of sheepskin nearly as old as that he was wearing; another had a basket with -three bunches of wild monkshood, pink spiræa, and blue +three bunches of wild monkshood, pink spiræa, and blue larkspur, and one small saucer full of wild strawberries; boys carrying one pot with a plant growing in it, or a tub of sour milk, or a string of onions, or bunch of juniper @@ -11173,7 +11135,7 @@ Sigurd home from Jerusalem. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">241</a></span></p> <p>Another memorable Bergen day was a day at Valestrand, -on the island Osteroën. Valestrand is a farm which has +on the island Osteroën. Valestrand is a farm which has been in the possession of Ole Bull's family for several generations, and is still in the possession of Ole Bull's eldest son. It lies two hours' sail north from Bergen,—two @@ -11188,7 +11150,7 @@ hour he will reach its end: all of which is clear profit for the steamboat company, no doubt, but is worrying to travellers; especially to those who leave Bergen of a morning at seven, as we did, invited to breakfast at Valestrand at nine, -and do not see Osteroën's shore till near eleven. People +and do not see Osteroën's shore till near eleven. People who were not going to Valestrand to breakfast that day were eating breakfast on board, all around us: poor people eating cracknels and dry bread out of baskets; well-to-do @@ -11305,8 +11267,8 @@ As the procession passed slowly along, flowers were showered on the coffin, and tears were seen on many faces, but the silence was unbroken.</p> -<p>At the grave, Norway's greatest orator and poet, Björnstjerne -Björnson, spoke a few words of eloquent love and +<p>At the grave, Norway's greatest orator and poet, Björnstjerne +Björnson, spoke a few words of eloquent love and admiration. The grave was made on a commanding spot <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">244</a></span> in the centre of Bergen's old cemetery, in which interments @@ -11834,7 +11796,7 @@ to cross our road by twos and threes. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">256</a></span></p> <p>High up on the hills, just in the edge of snow patches, -sæters were to be seen, their brown roofs looking as much +sæters were to be seen, their brown roofs looking as much a part of the lonely Nature as did the waterfalls and the pine-trees. On all sides shone the water,—trickling fosses down precipices, outbursting fosses from ravines and dells; @@ -11868,7 +11830,7 @@ turn we came out abreast of the top of the waterfall, and in a moment more had left all the stress and storm and tumult of waters behind us, and glided into a sombre, still roadway beside a calm little river deep in a fir forest. -Only the linnæa had won bloom out of this darkness; its +Only the linnæa had won bloom out of this darkness; its courageous little tendrils wreathed the tree trunks nestled among the savage rocks, and held up myriads of pink cups wet with the ceaseless spray. It was a dreary, lonely @@ -11894,9 +11856,9 @@ shed by the roadside. This shed was the only sign of human habitation to be seen in the region. His horse stood near by, with a big barrel slung on each side: they were barrels of milk, which had just been brought down in -this way from a sæter which we could see, well up in the +this way from a sæter which we could see, well up in the cloud region, far above the woods on the left. Down -the steep path from this sæter the man had walked, and the +the steep path from this sæter the man had walked, and the horse bearing the barrels of milk had followed. Now the barrels were to be put in the cart, and carried to Eide. Ten miles more that milk was to be carried before it @@ -11943,7 +11905,7 @@ from two to four thousand feet high; to the south, west, and north rise the green hills on which the farms lie; above these, again, rise other hills, higher and more distant, where in the edges of the snow tracts or buried in fir forests -are the sæters, the farmers' summer homes.</p> +are the sæters, the farmers' summer homes.</p> <p>As we drove into the village we met the peasants going home from church: the women in short green or black @@ -12062,18 +12024,18 @@ after question, in insatiable curiosity, about the unknown country whither their friends had gone.</p> <p>The wives and daughters of the family were all away, up -at the sæter with the cows; only the men and the servant +at the sæter with the cows; only the men and the servant maids were left at home to make the hay. Would I not <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">261</a></span> -go up to the sæter? The mistress would be distressed +go up to the sæter? The mistress would be distressed that an American lady had visited the farm in her absence. -I could easily go to the sæter in a day. It was only five +I could easily go to the sæter in a day. It was only five hours on horseback, and about a half-hour's walk, at the last, over a path too rough even for riding. Very warmly the men urged Sanna to induce me to make the trip. They themselves would leave the haying and go with me, if I would only go; and I must never think I had seen Norwegian -farming unless I had seen the sæter also, they said.</p> +farming unless I had seen the sæter also, they said.</p> <p>The maids were at dinner in the kitchen. It was a large room, with walls not more than eight feet high, black with @@ -12102,7 +12064,7 @@ through the chimney and the door. A bare wooden table, wooden chairs, a few shelves, where were ranged some iron utensils, were all the furniture of the gloomy room. The maids' dinner consisted of a huge plate of -fladbröd and jugs of milk; nothing else. They would live +fladbröd and jugs of milk; nothing else. They would live on that, Sanna said, for weeks, and work in the hay-fields from sunrise till midnight.</p> @@ -12160,7 +12122,7 @@ sorts, curiously carved and stained wooden spoons, among other things,—a cask full of them, put away to be used "when they had a merry-making." Here also were stacks of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">263</a></span> -fladbröd. This is the staple of the Norwegian's living; it +fladbröd. This is the staple of the Norwegian's living; it is a coarse bread made of dark flour, in cakes as thin as a wafer and as big round as a barrel. This is baked once a year, in the spring, is piled up in stacks in the storerooms, @@ -12209,7 +12171,7 @@ and these thatched roofs were the only thing that redeemed the gloom of the spot, the sods on these being bright with pansies and grasses and waving raspberry bushes. Here also we found the men of the family alone at home, the -women being gone on their summering at the sæter. The +women being gone on their summering at the sæter. The youngest son showed us freely from room to room, and displayed with some pride the trunks full of blankets and linen, and the rows of women's dresses hanging in the @@ -12257,7 +12219,7 @@ dry bread, and old silver.</p> <p>There were several storerooms in these farm buildings, and they were well filled with food, grain, flour, dried -meats, fish, and towers of fladbröd. Looms with partly +meats, fish, and towers of fladbröd. Looms with partly finished webs of cloth in them were there set away till winter; baskets full of carved yellow spoons hung on the wall. In one of the rooms, standing on the sill of the open @@ -12523,7 +12485,7 @@ wife was not strong, which made it harder for them, as they were obliged always to keep a servant.</p> <p>Even in full sunlight, at nine of the morning, Gudvangen -looked grim and dangerous, and the Nerö Fjord water +looked grim and dangerous, and the Nerö Fjord water black. As we sailed out, the walls of the valley closed up suddenly behind us, as with a snap which might have craunched poor little Gudvangen to death. The fjord is @@ -12750,7 +12712,7 @@ of its exhalation clouds.</p> <p>"The man told me that the pass also is to be passed with horse, the time of the summer, and that all then is to be carried in a pack-saddle to the farm, of his own horse, which is accustomed -to this trip. And when one know the small Lærdalske horses' +to this trip. And when one know the small Lærdalske horses' easiness, and the extraordinary security wherewith they can go upon the most narrow path on the edge of the most dreadful precipices, in that they place or cast the feet so in front of each @@ -12763,7 +12725,7 @@ a little more than twenty-four miles, and shall on the other side of the farm be still more narrow, more difficult, and more dreadful. The farmer himself and his people must often go there to the woods, and for other things for his farm. There belongs to -this farm most excellent sæter and mountain fields, wherefore +this farm most excellent sæter and mountain fields, wherefore the cattle begetting is here of great importance; and also the most excellent tract of firs belong to this farm.</p> @@ -12825,7 +12787,7 @@ of an <i>r</i> was irresistibly attractive. The words of the letter itself were, if not equally original in spelling, at least as unique in arrangement, and altogether the advertisement answered its purposes far better than if it had -been written in good English. The <i>naïveté</i> with which +been written in good English. The <i>naïveté</i> with which the writer went on to say, "I do recommend me," was delicious; and when she herself appeared there was something in her whole personal bearing entirely in keeping @@ -13013,7 +12975,7 @@ was a trifle too short, but this fault only added to the piquancy of the face. I lifted myself on my elbow to look at her. She was gone; and I sank back, thinking of the pictures that the world raved over, so few short years ago, -of the lovely Eugénie. Here was a face strangely like hers, +of the lovely Eugénie. Here was a face strangely like hers, but with far more fire and character,—a Norwegian girl, evidently poor. I was wondering if I should see her again, and how I could manage to set Katrina on her track, and @@ -13435,8 +13397,8 @@ of beautiful gay flowers at the Victoria, but they did not redeem it.</p> <p>"I tink dat place is like a prison more tan it is like a -hótle," said Katrina, as we drove away; in which she was -quite right. "I don't see vhy tey need make a hótle like +hótle," said Katrina, as we drove away; in which she was +quite right. "I don't see vhy tey need make a hótle like dat; nobody vould stay in prison!" At the Hotel Scandinavie, a big room with six sides and five windows pleased her better. "Dis is vat you like," she said; "here @@ -13792,7 +13754,7 @@ die, and leaved her." <p>When we went out to Oscar's Hall, which is a pretty country-seat of the king's, on the beautiful peninsula of -Ladegaardsöen, she was far more interested in the sculptured +Ladegaardsöen, she was far more interested in the sculptured cornice which told the story of Frithiof and Ingeborg, than in any of the more splendid things, or those more suggestive of the life of the king. The rooms are showily @@ -13860,10 +13822,10 @@ old Norway kings, Hakon, thought the peninsula beautiful enough for a wedding morning gift to his queen; but it seems not to have been held so dear by her as it ought, for she gave it away to the monks who lived on the neighboring -island of Hovedöen. Then, in the time of the +island of Hovedöen. Then, in the time of the Reformation, when monks had to scatter and go begging, and monastic properties were lying about loose everywhere, -the Norwegian kings picked up Ladegaardsöen +the Norwegian kings picked up Ladegaardsöen again, and it has been a crown property ever since.</p> <p>One of the most charming of the short drives in what @@ -13907,7 +13869,7 @@ souls so dead to all sense of beauty as to buy the hideous and costly combinations which he insisted upon laying in my lap: a sofa-cushion, square, thick, and hard, of wine-colored velvet, with a sprawling tree and bird laid upon it -in an appliqué pattern cut out of black and white velvet; +in an appliqué pattern cut out of black and white velvet; a long and narrow strip of the same velvet, with the same black and white velvet foliage and poultry, was trimmed at the ends with heavy fringe, and intended for a sideboard @@ -14088,14 +14050,14 @@ it still nothing more than a far-away, changing, luring oasis of sunny gold or wistful green on the mountain-side. Had it been called by any other name, my instinct to leave it unknown might have triumphed; but the words -"Frogner Sæter" were almost as great a lure to the -imagination as the green oasis itself. The sæter, high up +"Frogner Sæter" were almost as great a lure to the +imagination as the green oasis itself. The sæter, high up on some mountain-side, is the fulfilling of the Norwegian out-door life, the key-note of the Norwegian summer. The gentle kine know it as well as their mistresses who go thither with them. Three months in the upper air, in the spicy and fragrant woods,—no matter if it be -solitary and if the work be hard, the sæter life must +solitary and if the work be hard, the sæter life must be the best the Norwegians know,—must elevate and develop them, and strengthen them for their long, sunless winters. I had looked up from the Vossevangen Valley, @@ -14104,14 +14066,14 @@ such gleaming points of lighter green, tossed up as it were on the billowy forests. They were beyond the reach of any methods of ascent at my command; unwillingly I had accepted again and again the wisdom of the farm people, -who said "the road up to the sæter was too hard for those +who said "the road up to the sæter was too hard for those who were not used to it." Reluctantly I had put the -sæter out of my hopes, as a thing to be known only by +sæter out of my hopes, as a thing to be known only by imagination and other people's descriptions. Therefore the -name of the Frogner Sæter was a lure not to be resisted; -a sæter to which one might drive in a comfortable carriage -over a good road could not be the ideal sæter of the wild -country life, but still it was called "sæter;" we would go, +name of the Frogner Sæter was a lure not to be resisted; +a sæter to which one might drive in a comfortable carriage +over a good road could not be the ideal sæter of the wild +country life, but still it was called "sæter;" we would go, and we would take a day for the going and coming.</p> <p>"Dat will be bestest," said Katrina. "I tink you like @@ -14139,7 +14101,7 @@ of all persons in the habit or need of using the word "dynamic."</p> <p>It is five miles from Christiania out and up to the Frogner -Sæter, first through pretty suburban streets which are +Sæter, first through pretty suburban streets which are more roads than streets, with picturesque wooden houses, painted in wonderful colors,—lilac, apple-green, white with orange-colored settings to doors and windows, yellow @@ -14167,7 +14129,7 @@ instantly and good-naturedly attractive, with a suggestion of good fellowship, and sensible, easy-going good times inside and out.</p> -<p>The last three miles of the road to the sæter are steadily +<p>The last three miles of the road to the sæter are steadily up, and all the way through dense woods of fir and spruce,—that grand Norway spruce, which spreads its boughs out generously as palms, and loads down each twig so @@ -14177,7 +14139,7 @@ branches trail out along the ground, and the upper ones fold a little and slant downwards from the middle, as if avalanches of snow had just slid off on each side and bent them. Here were great beds of ferns, clusters of bluebells, -and territories of Linnæa. In June the mountain-side must +and territories of Linnæa. In June the mountain-side must be fragrant with its flowers.</p> <p>Katrina glowed with pleasure. In her colder, barrener @@ -14202,7 +14164,7 @@ home and dem trees to it; but my husband, he would not like it. He likes Bergen house bestest."</p> <p>As we drew near the top, we met carriages coming down. -Evidently it was the custom to drive to the Frogner Sæter.</p> +Evidently it was the custom to drive to the Frogner Sæter.</p> <p>"I tink in dat first carriage were Chews," said Katrina, scornfully. "I do hate dem Chews. I can't bear dat @@ -14225,7 +14187,7 @@ Dat is one good ting."</p> <p>In a small open, part clearing, part natural rocky crest <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">307</a></span> -of the hill, stood the sæter: great spaces of pink heather +of the hill, stood the sæter: great spaces of pink heather to right and left of it, a fir wood walling it on two sides; to the south and the east, a clear off-look over the two bays of the Christiania Fjord, past all their islands, out @@ -14303,7 +14265,7 @@ islands and the land are green. Pine logs in huge fireplaces can warm any room; and persons of the sort that would think of spending Christmas in a fir-wood on a mountain-top could make a house warm even better than -pine logs could do it. Christmas at the Frogner Sæter +pine logs could do it. Christmas at the Frogner Sæter must be a Christmas worth having.</p> <p>"The house is as full as ever it can hold," said the @@ -14323,7 +14285,7 @@ and loved chiming, and laughter and mirth ringing. I think for years to come the picture will be so vivid in my mind that I shall find myself on many a Christmas night mentally listening to the swift bells chiming down the -mountain from the Frogner Sæter.</p> +mountain from the Frogner Sæter.</p> <p>The eastern end of the piazza is closed in by a great window, one single pane of glass like the door; so that in @@ -14541,7 +14503,7 @@ his feet at the same time,—a thing that couldn't be done with any other sort of stove.</p> <p>One of my last days in Christiania was spent on the -island of Hovedöen, a short half-hour's row from the town. +island of Hovedöen, a short half-hour's row from the town. Here are the ruins of an old monastery, dating back to the first half of the twelfth century, and of priceless interest to antiquarians, who tell, inch by inch, among the old grass-grown @@ -14550,7 +14512,7 @@ prayed, and through which arch they walked at vespers. Bits of the old carved cornices are standing everywhere, leaning up against the moss-grown walls, which look much less old for being hoary with moss. One thing they had -in the monastery of Hovedöen,—a well of ice-cold, sparkling +in the monastery of Hovedöen,—a well of ice-cold, sparkling <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">314</a></span> water, which might have consoled them for much lack of wine; and if the limes and poplars and birches were @@ -15004,12 +14966,12 @@ tongue?</p> <div class="poem"> <p class="po1">"Modtag Takken og Farvellet</p> <p>Som Erindring med dem hjem,</p> -<p>Sjönt som Fremmed jeg er stillet</p> +<p>Sjönt som Fremmed jeg er stillet</p> <p>Og som Tjener kun for dem.</p> -<p>Himlen's rige Lön nedbeder</p> +<p>Himlen's rige Lön nedbeder</p> <p>Jeg for Lidet og for Stort,</p> -<p>Mrs. Jackson, Held og Hæder</p> -<p>Fölge dem til Döden's Port."</p> +<p>Mrs. Jackson, Held og Hæder</p> +<p>Fölge dem til Döden's Port."</p> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">322</a></span></p> @@ -15375,7 +15337,7 @@ Denmark, which must have been in those days a great forest of beech and oak to have kept so many till now. It is only a few miles from Frederikssund, also, to Havelse, which is celebrated for its "kitchen middings,"—the -archæological name for kitchen refuse which got buried +archæological name for kitchen refuse which got buried up hundreds of years ago. Even potato parings become highly important if you keep them long enough! They will at least establish the fact that somebody ate potatoes @@ -16848,8 +16810,8 @@ of what happens to you in foreign countries when you pin your faith on people who are said to "speak English here," than by giving you the tale of how I went from Copenhagen to Lubeck. To begin with, I explained to -the porter of the König von Denmark Hotel, who is one of -the English-speaking <i>attachés</i> of that very good hotel, +the porter of the König von Denmark Hotel, who is one of +the English-speaking <i>attachés</i> of that very good hotel, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">363</a></span> that I wished, in going to Lubeck, to avoid water as much as possible. I endeavored to convey to him that my horror @@ -17076,7 +17038,7 @@ long lines of trees on each side. Roeskilde, Ringsted, Soro,—three towns, but seemingly only one great farm, for seventeen miles out of Copenhagen. Then we began to smell the salt water, and to get a fresh breeze in at the -windows; and presently we came to Kosör, where we were +windows; and presently we came to Kosör, where we were to take boat. A big man in uniform stood at the door of the station, looked at our tickets, said "Kiel," and waved his hand toward a little steamer lying at the dock.</p> @@ -17158,7 +17120,7 @@ dates back to 1100 and 1200, and thereabouts,—which does not sound so very old to you when you have just come from Norway, where a thing is not ancient unless it dates back to somewhere near Christ's time; but for a -mediæval town, Lubeck has a fine flavor of antiquity about +mediæval town, Lubeck has a fine flavor of antiquity about it. It has some splendid old gateways, and plenty of old houses, two-thirds roof, one-third gable, and four-fifths dormer-window, with door-posts and corners carved in the @@ -17497,7 +17459,7 @@ pain to see on the outside doors of what apparently is a cupboard one of Memling's angels (the Gabriel) and the Mary listening to his message. Throwing these doors back, you see life-size figures of four saints,—John, Jerome, Blasius, -and Ægidius. The latter is a grand dark figure, with a +and Ægidius. The latter is a grand dark figure, with a head and face to haunt one. Opening these doors again, you come to the last,—a landscape with the crucifixion in the foreground, and other scenes from the Passion of the @@ -17591,17 +17553,17 @@ beautiful Germany for a birthday present, and be in Berlin on his birthday; and instead of that the Prussians were in Berlin on his birthday."</p> -<p>At Lüneburg we came into the heather. I thought I +<p>At Lüneburg we came into the heather. I thought I knew heather, but I was to discover my mistake. All the heather of my life heretofore—English, Scotch, Norwegian—had been no more than a single sprig by the side of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">379</a></span> -this. "The dreary Lüneburg Heath," the discriminating +this. "The dreary Lüneburg Heath," the discriminating Baedeker calls it. The man who wrote that phrase must have been not only color-blind, he must have been color-dead! If a mountain is "dreary" when it turns purple pink or pink purple five minutes before the rising sun is -going to flash full on its eastern front, then the Lüneburg +going to flash full on its eastern front, then the Lüneburg Heath is "dreary." Acres of heather, miles of heather; miles after miles, hour after hour, of swift railroad riding, and still heather! The purple and the pink and the @@ -17714,7 +17676,7 @@ that sum is more than the price at ordinary times. I will give you this fifty pfennigs for yourself, and not another pfennig do you get!" I wish that the man that invented the word <i>pfennig</i> had to "do a pour of it for one -tousand year," as dear old Dr. Pröhl said of the teapot +tousand year," as dear old Dr. Pröhl said of the teapot that would not pour without spilling. I think it is the test-word of the German language. The nearest direction I could give for pronouncing it would be: fill your mouth @@ -17795,7 +17757,7 @@ looked like crowds of furry creatures nestled close for protection. Some rollicking school girls, with long hair flying, got into our carriage, and chattered, and ate cake, and giggled; the cars rocked us to and fro on our seats as if we were -in a saddle on a run-away horse in a Colorado cañon. All +in a saddle on a run-away horse in a Colorado cañon. All the rough roads I have ever been on have been smooth gliding in comparison with this. At nine o'clock, Munich, and a note from the dear old "Fraulein" to say that her @@ -18229,7 +18191,7 @@ in front, full of hay; the other drawing behind her (not wheeling it) a low, scoop-shaped wheelbarrow full of green grass and clover,—these are a few of any day's pictures. And thither came every day Issa Kattan, from Bethlehem -of Judæa,—a brown-skinned, deer-eyed Syrian, who had +of Judæa,—a brown-skinned, deer-eyed Syrian, who had come all the way from the Holy Land to offer to the Passion Play pilgrims mother-of-pearl trinkets wrought in Jerusalem; rosaries of pearl, of olive-wood, of seeds, @@ -19289,7 +19251,7 @@ ready to attend a solemn mass at daylight.</p> There is no confusion, no noise. The proportion of those who have come to the play with as solemn a feeling as they would have followed the steps of the living Christ in -Judæa is so large that the contagion of their devout atmosphere +Judæa is so large that the contagion of their devout atmosphere spreads even to the most indifferent spectators, commanding quiet and serious demeanor.</p> @@ -19319,7 +19281,7 @@ become a common summer pleasure for the whole world.</p> <p>When birds fly over, they cast fluttering shadows of their wings on the front of Pilate's and Caiaphas' homes, -as naturally as did Judæan sparrows two thousand years +as naturally as did Judæan sparrows two thousand years ago. Even butterflies flitting past cast their tiny shadows on the stage; one bird paused, hovered, as if pondering <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418" id="Page_418">418</a></span> @@ -19441,383 +19403,6 @@ attain any great success or importance.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_9" id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Betrothed.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Glimpses of Three Coasts, by Helen Hunt Jackson - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GLIMPSES OF THREE COASTS *** - -***** This file should be named 42009-h.htm or 42009-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/0/0/42009/ - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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