Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-09

him not TO overtax his strength too quick; we
had work enough. Nonsense He could 90
tiUice as lar as |, any day. just then the man
came up. lie was bound for a village only
mile or two nom SchwartZburg, and although
we were taking the longest road, he had I'll
lowed us, as soon they told him. back there,
that couple of young men were on the way
''ior, you see." said he, 81 like company
especially lively company" That WAS
grand Introduction, aud We logged along to-
getlier, jJi!ily We stopped 10 visit mills
where tue common play marbles are made
and, spite OF nay protest, Carl insisted upon
Juggling great pocket full home, 'becaIse
they were 50 cheap" From Strinach our
friend took US by foOt-path, quite over the
hill, where our path went through snow three
feet deep. Arrived here al s O'Clock at night
after Il walk, to-day, OF over thirty miles.
Our feet are feartully Swelied and we are
very, very tired. Poor Carl Jagged badly,
the last few miles, and kept declaring that if
lie did not see the hotel window in fifteen min
utes he would lay down by the road. The
tact is. we are beaten out and out by Dutch
man. Our companion, to-day, is the fastest,
easiest, and best walker | ever saw. He
bounded along us quietly rs il he were walk
ing across the Carp,t, chatted pleasantly all the
time, and yet kept us bounding to keep up
with him We are both ashamed OF our
selves, and OF course lay il to our boots Tie
whO!e walk has been romantic i'll The extreme
Up one stream, which runs into the Maine,
and thence into the Rhine TO an immense
height, where we found the water sheet, then
down another which flows into The Saale, RIG ht
by our little nome i'll Halle, and OH 10 The
North Sea. For miles the roadside next the
stream was beautifully hedged with slunted
hemlocks. Upon the Whole The scenery has
seemed more like Pine Greek than any for
cign forest that l have seen. Our bed in the
hotel was literally box of Sir0W, with
blanket over it, and u big feather orer one, goes
grand
RUDoLsTADT, Friday, 5th-Our first walk
of four or five miles, this morning. along the
banks Of the stream, around the old castle of
Kudostadt was exceedingly interesting IN it,
self. But my mind was tuil OF an old piece !
used to read in the american Manual" with
my toes on the mark, by Washington Irving,
l think, entitled "IhG Old Indian" 1t de-
scIibes Il sail down tie river in a canoe very
early in the morning, the birds singing, tile
people coming slowly out Of their houses, The
slow increase OF the busy hum Of men IN
their labOrs, breaking upon the silence OF the
early morning / hUated 50 easily back 10
old times that l was a boy again. alad snu1tiug
the morning breeze will ali OF hos : ettlas-
iasm.
We climbed up the mountain side 10 LIP
stein and enjoyed a INA 1aItictgt l0uA-oi$ i,4u
his height over The whoia IhHrngea Muld,
more especially tie Schwartz Thai, The unsl
beautiful paIl ut lie whuit iDrpsl From i.s.re
we took d bee line, by tire rnnpass, tlirrclly
through the Gland Dukes lher garden.
Astounding 10 deer wild bears, aud aH sorts OF
game. These live perfectly wild, 8 td Jl.rough
the winter come regu sry 10 sort OF Irouals
erected the midst WHARF ri..4,