A Tramp Abroad - The Original Classic Edition. Twain Mark
sometimes along the margin of long stretches of velvety grass, fresh and green and bright, a tireless charm to the eye. And the birds!--they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled.
It was a deep and satisfying pleasure to see the sun create the new morning, and gradually, patiently, lovingly, clothe it on with splendor after splendor, and glory after glory, till the miracle was complete.
How different is this marvel observed from a raft, from what it is when one observes it through the dingy windows of a railway-station in some
wretched village while he munches a petrified sandwich and waits for the
train.
A TRAMP ABROAD, Part 3.
By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880
Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition
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ILLUSTRATIONS:
1.A A A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR
2.A A A TITIAN'S MOSES
3.A A A THE AUTHOR'S MEMORIES
73.A A A DEEP AND TRANQUIL ECSTACY
74.A A "WHICH ANSWERED JUST AS WELL"
75.A A LIFE ON A RAFT
76.A A LADY GERTRUDE
77.A A MOUTH OF THE CAVERN
78.A A A FATAL MISTAKE
79.A A TAIL PIECE
80.A A RAFTING ON THE NECKAR
81.A A THE LORELEI
82.A A THE LOVER's FATE
84.A A THE UNKNOWN KNIGHT
85.A A THE EMBRACE
86.A A PERILOUS POSTTION
87.A A THE RAFT IN A STORM
88.A A ALL SAFE ON SHORE
89.A A "IT WAS THE CAT"
90.A A TAILPIECE
91.A A BREAKFAST IN THE GARDEN 162
92.A A EASILY UNDERSTOOD
93.A A EXPERIMENTING THROUGH HARRIS
94.A A AT THE BALL ROOM DOOR
95.A A THE TOWN OF DILSBERG
96.A A OUR ADVANCE ON DILSBERG
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97.A A INSIDE THE TOWN
95.A A THE OLD WELL
99.A A SEND HITHER THE LORD ULRICH
100.A A LEAD ME TO HER GRAVE
102.A A AN EXCELLENT PILOT, ONCE
103.A A SCATTERATION
104.A A THE RIVER BATH
101.A A ETRUSCAN TEAR JUG
106.A A HENRI II. PLATE
l07.A A OLD BLUE CHINA
108.A A A REAL ANTIQUE
109.A A BRIC-A-BRAC SHOP
110.A A "PUT IT THERE"
111.A A THE PARSON CAPTURED
112.A A TAIL PIECE
113.A A A COMPREHENSIVE YAWN
114.A A TESTING THE COIN
115.A A BEAUTY AT THE BATH
116.A A IN THE BATH
117.A A JERSEY INDIANS
118.A A NOT PARTICULARLY SOCIABLE
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER XV Down the River--German Women's Duties--Bathing as We Went--A
Handsome Picture: Girls in the Willows--We Sight a Tug--Steamers on the
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Neckar--Dinner on Board--Legend "Cave of the Spectre "--Lady Gertrude the Heiress--The Crusader--The Lady in the Cave--A Tragedy
CHAPTER XVI An Ancient Legend of the Rhine--"The Lorelei"--Count
Hermann--Falling in Love--A Sight of the Enchantress--Sad Effect
on Count Hermann--An Evening visit--A Sad Mistake--Count Hermann Drowned--The Song and Music--Different Trans lations--Curiosities in Titles
CHAPTER XVII Another Legend--The Unconquered Monster--The Unknown Knight
--His Queer Shaped Knapsack--The Knight Pitied and Advised--He Attacks the Monster--Victory for the Fire Extinguisher--The Knight rewarded--His Strange Request----Spectacles Made Popular--Danger to the Raft--Blasting Rocks--An Inglorious Death in View--Escaped--A Storm Overtakes
us--GreatDanger--Man Overboard--Breakers Ahead--Springing a Leak--Ashore Safe--A General Embracing--A Tramp in the Dark--The Naturalist Tavern--A Night's Troubles--"It is the Cat"
CHAPTER XVIII Breakfast in a Garden--The Old Raven--Castle of Hirschhorn--Attempt to Hire a Boat--High Dutch--What You Can Find out by Enquiring--What I Found out about the Students--A good German Custom--Harris Practices It--AnEmbarrassing Position--A Nice Party--At a Ball--Stopped at the Door--Assistance at Hand and Rendered--Worthy to be
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an Empress
CHAPTER XIX Arrive at Neckarsteinach--Castle of Dilsberg--A Walled Town--On a Hill--Exclusiveness of the People--A Queer Old Place--An Ancient Well--An Outlet Proved--Legend of Dilsberg Castle--The Haunted Chamber--The Betrothed's request--The Knight's Slumbers
and Awakening--Horror of the Lover--The Wicked Jest--The Lover a Maniac--Under the Linden--Turning Pilot--Accident to the Raft--Fearful Disaster
CHAPTER XX Good News--"Slow Freight"--Keramics--My Collection of Bric-a- brac--My Tear Jug--Henri II. Plate--Specimen of Blue China--Indifference
to the Laugh of the World--I Discover an Antique En-route to
Baden--Baden--Meeting an Old Acquaintance--A young American--Embryo
Horse Doctor--An American, Sure--A Minister Captured
CHAPTER XXI Baden--Baden--Energetic Girls--A Comprehensive Yawn--A Beggar's Trick--Cool Impudence--The Bath Woman--Insolence of Shop Keepers--Taking a Bath--Early and Late Hours--Popular Belief Regarding Indians--An Old Cemetery--A Pious Hag--Curious Table Companions
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CHAPTER XV
[Charming Waterside Pictures]
Men and women and cattle were at work in the dewy fields by this time. The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride.
Only the men did this; the women were too busy. The women do all kinds of work on the continent. They dig, they hoe, they reap, they sow, they bear monstrous burdens on their backs, they shove similar ones long distances on wheelbarrows, they drag the cart when there is no dog or
lean cow to drag it--and when there is, they assist the dog or cow. Age is no matter--the older the woman the stronger she is, apparently.
On the farm a woman's duties are not defined--she does a little of
everything; but in the towns it is different, there she only does
certain things, the men do the rest. For instance, a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights
of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. She does not have to work more than eighteen or twenty hours a day, and
she can always get down on her knees and scrub the floors of halls and
closets when she is tired and needs a rest.
As the morning advanced and the weather grew hot, we took off our outside clothing and sat in a row along the edge of the raft and enjoyed
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