Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-08

gust Wiue enough TO let us ana our companion
the rvuIet squeeze through. Wherever it did
widen Il little we found shepherd, with his
crook and his little flock. lie would he knit.
ting, eontentetlly seated on tOck while the
lambs ere butting one another off little logs,
or jumping over little rils. in the highest glee.
Sometimes a sturdy maedchen would be the
shepherdIss. Whenever we stopped to talk
with them they seemed tolerably intelligent;
but death-ke quiet seemed to reign over
their thoughts. They never dreamed Of peep
ing over the surrounding hills When our
feet felt hot and niiamed we would stop to
battle them in the refreshing water, always by
little fail, which filled our ears with lis
music The birds, which had made gay music
for us in the morning, were now quiet, and
the Sabbath stiffness was unbruken, save by
these gentle waters We would often leave
the path, and walk for miles over the green
sward, soft with spring rains, and nipped close
by the sheep. Sometimes the path would lead
US through little districts which would shut
out from our view the stream, he glade, and
the sky itself tell into dreamy revery,
and got intensely amused to see how meclan'
icaliy my feet were trOtting along, while had
nothing to remind me that they belonged 10
me, except the smart of a blister which
alarp stone would once in a while touch 10 the
| quick. In this deep dream | should have lost
half the beauties of the valley, if Karl had not
kept shouting 10 me TO look at this rock and
! that castle, and caves and thicketS without
! number, He declared | was the drOwsest,
| most unappreciative wretch that ever breathed.
| He wished he had ''the little wife" along, to
chatter with him.
Just then we reached the Drei QuelIen, the
most wonderful spring | ever saw. Three
| immense springs flow directly out of the noun
tain. and supply, | think, quite as much water
iDfn tI,a lbnr,
make stream four feet wide and three deep.
! flowing very swiftly. They turn large mill
and also machinery which pumps their waters
hve hundred feet perpendicularly up, into
| G9schweinsein, village to which we climb.
! ed, with much putting. We visited the beau.
| ttul cathedral, which has miracle working
picture at the altar, where pilgrims come from
all Bayesn to get magic blessings. | thought,
as / snutfed the breeze that came sweeping
over the high lands of this mountainous re-
| gi0n, that it was no Tom-fo0l's errand these
poor pentup city pilgrims came on, after all.
| wish we could get up miracle, it nothing
! else could Dust them, to start some of our pro-
testant fixtures off on such pilgrimage,
| where they must 60 the whole way on foot,
and eat simple fare. Here's FOR preaching pill
| grmages by and by. The view from the old
castle on the cliff have never yet seen equal
| ed. Possibly the table land to the south, with
it little villages, forests, and sweet fields,
not more beautiful than we have seen in the
| Odenwald. But just beneath US was point
where three li;tle branches united themselves
into the Wiesent. Their valleys, as far as the
| eye can reach, are crowned with rugged rocks,
and lined with eyergreens 10 tie base Of the
| hill then here and there we catch view of
the pearly waters, and the little finger breadth
| OF Sward, covered with that matchlesS green
which nothing but the baby grass OF earliest
! spring can produce, and which certainly no
painter can initiate. | don't believe any other
season OF the year can make such a touching
and tender impression on the beholder OF tins
scene for the first time. l have been thankful
hundred times that we didn't put oft our
tramp.
We now hoped, jumped, and rolled down
the steep hill, and at the base found Bauer
| with meal bag on his back, jogging along to.
ward Muggendorf, where we were 10 sleep
| tonight. Our hats were off as soon as we
came up TO him our hearty "Guten Abenl"
made us friends In Il minute, and we had his
company the whole way. The poor fellow
was Il mason, just in the prime of ile but
broken down with hard work trying to support
family OF SO kinder ind Hofauag" ON 81 cents
day He had no idea dnat we are Ameri.
cans, for our talk betrays us now only to very
critical ears. Yet he told us OF "Getler IA
therlanl' ior the poor of which lie had heard,
from friends vino had scraprd together gold
enough TO wander SO tar. | wish | could
transport all our American traitors here, and
let them see the effect ot few decades of dis
union, and military government. But our
talk did not blind US to The beauties of the
valley, which seemed to increase as the shad
ows heightened. Trout fishers, with little
water cans to keep the fish alive, were work.
ing along down the stream. Once the Bauer
ltnN rs.fl
up the side OF the hill aud immense tubs of
water on their backs. "rhere is Il little vii.
age right up there, said he, NEARLY stunde
three milesl of, where there is not Il drop OF
water All that man and beast Use is carried
on the backs Of those poor creatures And
yet you wonder why we are SO stupid here
about religion. Give US bread and hope" he
added bitterly, "and perhaps we can awake to
a better lie" | can't reproduce the simple
aud touching lang uage in which this was eX-
pressed. "Bread and hope p l was silent the
rest of the way. 1t was food for new mus
lngs. Here was Il stream never dry, flied
to Overlooking, by perennial streams OF wom-
deriui richness, anu descending very rapidly
in valley so narrow that the whole of it could
be damned at trifiing expense. Yankee en-.
terprIse would have factory at every mile,
and give bread and hope" 10 ten times this
population. Yet generation after generation
must die out here, and no business but raising
hops and brewing beer
Here reached our inn, ate my bread quiet
ly, and went to sleep praying for hope.
4Nuggendof Marcel 31.-Of course we remain
here quietly to-day. In the morning at nine
O'Clock we went to the little church on the hill
aud heard very pretty Lutheran SERVICE
better intoncd than in halle. Then came a
nice little schOOlbOy Grafton. over the grand
Inspiring theme of tile Resurrection, suggest