The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-09 00:00:00

ON THE WILDSPITZ.

A spooled earrespondent of the Moniav Pad gime
the following account of an ad meters on Me Tyrolese
Newfield@ :—• story Is laid of a Frenob bishop whose
thirst to: news was so avid that he Lad • habit of way-
laying travellers who passed through his village and
lidos at them a volley of iburrugatioria. Oa* day
when • pustehaim was brought to • staticiatlLl at she
mammary " Ili, hi," the his 3op's inquiry, " Whether
Mors was anything new la Paris," Was met by the
bearer, "Ye. green pea," "DAG whit were people
saying when you left?' " Visper.i." was the reply.
"Good gradoas, man, what stepiduy ! Who on earst
min yea b• r " Inseleitive prelates call as.'ol. hi
to the rest of Me weed I sin kraorre as the Des do
B—," was the rejalser. One wishes that swim of
them Tyroletie and Swiss questlmers 000ld be pet down
1 after a similar fashion. You Mimi eel, to ester •
mountain village, with so to, me, sites every guile In
the place regards you as his pavan, property. and the
enquiries wide& you have to Mos as to
whence you oats% whither you are going, what 'lmam
you lotsud to mom, .ed what meets you hoP•to amend,
are examdingly wearisome. It le of no °wy nee to
dower@ that you only came from the last •iilsge aset
are ohly going to this nest F.vostrod by good esesbar,
mid
it. w, atorfully sea.oloss condition of the mow,
w. snoo..drd In owes the mammit of the Wildepite
and piaaaaded to she little lon 'Muth has berm bums
close to the kiisterels Glam i or, weeding to ere,a to
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of su, murk over the top of the rather more
dlouJl wasdregeL But the (maser., against us. As
„a passed up the valley en ths evening • tr•Olendmi
atom ewe on ; peal. al thunder roPed &tee( she
marrow gorge ; the most yield lightning flashed stossd
sad lighted op the {hater shove the tartest, at ra's
eremite& us to the skis. This sort of war of Me
olandnts le a magniAoent eight, beti ig 700 haw ma
sow your Impure and inteud to ascend a mow moss.
bun spo lb. morrow, Es grandeur iasonsewhasoseepagrb.
lad by the inoonvenienoes which it mails. Fara:meta,.
there wets ouly mvi
ale sitora at our ion, so es Postured
to some down to the mile s etringer hatated in blankets
which served fur onf tole garment& while oar sloths,
were being dried. At night Ins wsethey seamed
hopelessly had, but at throe o'clock in the owning the
asides reported that ths sky was aim,, and that,
tiongh the recent eso• would probably mete out
progress rarVusr booms*, we aught rudely attempt this
a.centel the Weimilkugol. Aooorilingly we slimed, is
Lour Icer, and male our Ony In th • faint starlight op
IL. glaider. Socictrulyi however, km aloud. reaed sp
trona behind the mountains, and almost is • sassed tbo
whole 411:h at of Mode), was Manged, Seen there came
• light rain, than it grew bitterly sold, sod • wild gels
dashed bl,oding drat .rs our fairer. We struggled as
for 4.1131 e, time over toe alippery to-, bat atter &while
the guides oame M • bal., .uAgeeting that the intended
swat W.* oat of the question, and that, ocempidirieg
Ma maims mid, it scud be smelly wise traly eves
,to Gress the pass. Thera was aothin for II is best
a roars* and meordlngly we stamWagly rearmed est
slops with Me Masi oelortty, sad Kota book Wags Is
the Ode lan.

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