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fssnd phase IN the aforesaid eaissry,
tsr | sson discovered tina; sli | had
heard ct >wsss scencry Mas true and
mere IL sexqsisIiely beautiful be.
yond anything had ever conceived
of. B.i ! sha..id no nasre think ot
comparing Colorado ani Switzerland
than | should ef comparing tie lily
aud tie ra-e a. D. bcaafy thcy are
a saeh different types La ssitzer-
land. 8 1t seemed O. n8e, 0ne sees
either valley or mountain. no hllis.
aud the valleys laslk - level and the
mountains So precg gpItuus. Then
where thdre b. even thlmbleiui of
s1d one sets grass. the kin8 oi grass
sc have in cur lawns an toluraI0.
bat never CA the hills a. IN SWit1e -
land Also the Alpine mountains
. are ouveloped so much Of the time
ln cloud aud mist. and the Swiss
lakes are literally diamonds If the
, hrsi water with most wonderful SCI
uug al mountain and valley
. We arrived at BregeEz at 1880
having beea about two and nali
} hours on The water ! had written
. Co my ftber's brother in lautrach, a
: little village near Bregenz. % meet
mc al the ship. boa the letter went
astray and he received n too late 10
? meet al the boat 50 We hunted up
; the house where We were to spend
: night and ate our dinner After
dinner we went down town 90 buy
+ some postal cards and when We re
turned an old man was standing at
. the door As we entered the door
, he stepped up 10 US and said in Eng
lish, Are you the two American
ladies' We told him we were. then
he told US how for thirty years he
had been a prospector IN California.
and Oregon, and had returned 10
, Bregenz, his old home, two or three
. years ago, and was now (this he did
not tell us until just as we were
4 bidding him goodbye several hours
later in the poor house. His offer
! to show us the town we accepted,
, though we did not feel that we
/ needed guide having dispensed
with this luxury so far ON our trip.
We have German guide books which
generally suffice for the time we have
= TO see a town
r Several years use to recite
r Miss Proctor's "A Legend of Bre-
e GEM. the story Of the Tirol maid
. who in l401 saved Bregenz, so |
b asked to be taken to the place where
r yet uponth hill,
S An old stone gate way rises,
To do her honor still,
Here accordingly he lead US. This
: gateway is situated in the oldest por-
! ton Of the town, and is OF very an
cient appearance On the gate-w way
is a very faded painting representing
the maid Ehreguta mounted on her
white charger
Our old guide then lead US 10 the
Martins towers at one time part Of
the city's fortiGcation, but changed
in 1862 by William IL of Montfurt
into a chapel. Now il serves again
as a watch-tower for modern Bregenz
for in the rooms at the top whose
windows overlook the whole town,
lives a family whose duty it is to
constantly keep watch over the town.
Should they from their point of van
tage detect fire anywhere
they must telephone the fact to the
fire company. really almost envied
the people the wonderful views they
have from the four windows Of their
tower. On one side over the odd
roofs Of the houses, and beyond to
Lake Constance with its tree covered
piers, its surface dotted with boats,
and,
Watching each white cloudlet float
and slow,
You think a piece Of heaven lies on
this earth below"
On one side one sees beyond the
old town the modern villas and the
plain, green and fertile. and in the