A Tramp Abroad

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1. [The Knighted Knave of Bergen] · “The Knave of Bergen”
   The Knighted Knave of Bergen One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man…
2. [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]
   Heidelberg Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg We stopped at a hotel by the railway-station. Next morning, as we sat in my room waiting for bre…
3. [What Stumped the Blue Jays]
   Baker’s Bluejay Yarn What Stumped the Blue Jays “When I first begun to understand jay language correctly, there was a little incident happe…
4. [The Laborious Beer King]
   Student Life The Laborious Beer King The summer semester was in full tide; consequently the most frequent figure in and about Heidelberg wa…
5. [Dueling by Wholesale]
   At the Students’ Dueling-Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day in the interest of science my agent obtained permission to bring me to the stu…
6. [A Sport that Sometimes Kills]
   The third duel was brief and bloody. The surgeon stopped it when he saw that one of the men had received such bad wounds that he could not…
7. [How Bismark Fought]
   In addition to the corps laws, there are some corps usages which have the force of laws. Perhaps the president of a corps notices that one…
8. [I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel]
   The Great French Duel I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel Much as the modern French duel is ridiculed by certain smart people, it is in re…
9. [What the Beautiful Maiden Said]
   One day we took the train and went down to Mannheim to see “King Lear” played in German. It was a mistake. We sat in our seats three whole…
10. [How Wagner Operas Bang Along]
    Three or four hours. That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wagner’s operas bang along for…
11. [I Paint a “Turner”]
    The summer days passed pleasantly in Heidelberg. We had a skilled trainer, and under his instructions we were getting our legs in the right…
12. [What the Wives Saved]
    The Rathhaus, or municipal building, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Middle-Age architecture. It has a massive portico and steps,…
13. [My Long Crawl in the Dark]
    When we got back to the hotel I wound and set the pedometer and put it in my pocket, for I was to carry it next day and keep record of the…
14. [Rafting Down the Neckar]
    When the landlord learned that I and my agents were artists, our party rose perceptibly in his esteem; we rose still higher when he learned…
15. [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 gra…
16. The Cave of the Specter · An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei] · The Legend
    The Cave of the Specter Two miles below Hornberg castle is a cave in a low cliff, which the captain of the raft said had once been occupied…
17. The Lorelei · The Lorelei · [Why Germans Wear Spectacles]
    The Lorelei I cannot divine what it meaneth, This haunting nameless pain: A tale of the bygone ages Keeps brooding through my brain: The fa…
18. Legend of the “Spectacular Ruin”
    The captain of the raft, who was as full of history as he could stick, said that in the Middle Ages a most prodigious fire-breathing dragon…
19. [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]
    In the morning we took breakfast in the garden, under the trees, in the delightful German summer fashion. The air was filled with the fragr…
20. [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg]
    However, I wander from the raft. We made the port of Necharsteinach in good season, and went to the hotel and ordered a trout dinner, the s…
21. The Legend of Dilsberg Castle
    It was to this effect. In the old times there was once a great company assembled at the castle, and festivity ran high. Of course there was…
22. [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]
    Next morning brought good news—our trunks had arrived from Hamburg at last. Let this be a warning to the reader. The Germans are very consc…
23. [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]
    Baden-Baden sits in the lap of the hills, and the natural and artificial beauties of the surroundings are combined effectively and charming…
24. [The Black Forest and Its Treasures]
    From Baden-Baden we made the customary trip into the Black Forest. We were on foot most of the time. One cannot describe those noble woods,…
25. Skeleton for a Black Forest Novel
    Rich old farmer, named Huss. Has inherited great wealth of manure, and by diligence has added to it. It is double-starred in Baedeker. The…
26. [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]
    We were satisfied that we could walk to Oppenau in one day, now that we were in practice; so we set out the next morning after breakfast de…
27. [I Protect the Empress of Germany]
    That was a thoroughly satisfactory walk—and the only one we were ever to have which was all the way downhill. We took the train next mornin…
28. [Hunted by the Little Chamois] (1)
    Next morning we left in the train for Switzerland, and reached Lucerne about ten o’clock at night. The first discovery I made was that the…
29. [Hunted by the Little Chamois] (2)
    “You have an unerring instinct. What else did you do? What did you talk about?” “Well, I asked the girl how old she was.” “Undoubtedly. You…
30. [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]
    The Hofkirche is celebrated for its organ concerts. All summer long the tourists flock to that church about six o’clock in the evening, and…
31. [I Spare an Awful Bore]
    Close by the Lion of Lucerne is what they call the “Glacier Garden”—and it is the only one in the world. It is on high ground. Four or five…
32. [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]
    The Rigi-Kulm is an imposing Alpine mass, six thousand feet high, which stands by itself, and commands a mighty prospect of blue lakes, gre…
33. [Looking West for Sunrise]
    He kept his word. We heard his horn and instantly got up. It was dark and cold and wretched. As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking…
34. [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]
    An hour’s sail brought us to Lucerne again. I judged it best to go to bed and rest several days, for I knew that the man who undertakes to…
35. [Alp-scaling by Carriage]
    We now prepared for a considerable walk—from Lucerne to Interlaken, over the Bruenig Pass. But at the last moment the weather was so good t…
36. [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]
    We located ourselves at the Jungfrau Hotel, one of those huge establishments which the needs of modern travel have created in every attract…
37. [We Climb Far—by Buggy]
    The beautiful Giesbach Fall is near Interlaken, on the other side of the lake of Brienz, and is illuminated every night with those gorgeous…
38. [The World’s Highest Pig Farm]
    We hired the only guide left, to lead us on our way. He was over seventy, but he could have given me nine-tenths of his strength and still…
39. [Swindling the Coroner] (1)
    A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him! I strode onward fr…
40. [Swindling the Coroner] (2)
    Our search for those remains having failed, we inspected with a glass the dim and distant track of an old-time avalanche that once swept do…
41. [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]
    We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued…
42. [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]
    After I had finished my readings, I was no longer myself; I was tranced, uplifted, intoxicated, by the almost incredible perils and adventu…
43. [I Conquer the Gorner Grat] (1)
    We went into camp on that wild spot to which that ram had brought us. The men were greatly fatigued. Their conviction that we were lost was…
44. [I Conquer the Gorner Grat] (2)
    Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly. I answer th…
45. [We Travel by Glacier]
    A guide-book is a queer thing. The reader has just seen what a man who undertakes the great ascent from Zermatt to the Riffelberg Hotel mus…
46. [Piteous Relics at Chamonix]
    I am not so ignorant about glacial movement, now, as I was when I took passage on the Gorner Glacier. I have “read up” since. I am aware th…
47. [The Fearful Disaster of 1865]
    One of the most memorable of all the Alpine catastrophes was that of July, 1865, on the Matterhorn—already slightly referred to, a few page…
48. Mr. Whymper’s Narrative
    We started from Zermatt on the 13th of July, at half past five, on a brilliant and perfectly cloudless morning. We were eight in number—Cro…
49. [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]
    Switzerland is simply a large, humpy, solid rock, with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. Consequently, they do not dig graves, they b…
50. [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
    Everybody was out-of-doors; everybody was in the principal street of the village—not on the sidewalks, but all over the street; everybody w…
51. [I Scale Mont Blanc—by Telescope]
    After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departi…
52. A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives
    On the 5th of September, 1870, a caravan of eleven persons departed from Chamonix to make the ascent of Mont Blanc. Three of the party were…
53. [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]
    Mr. Harris and I took some guides and porters and ascended to the Hotel des Pyramides, which is perched on the high moraine which borders t…
54. [Queer European Manners]
    We spent a few pleasant restful days at Geneva, that delightful city where accurate time-pieces are made for all the rest of the world, but…
55. [Beauty of Women—and of Old Masters]
    In Milan we spent most of our time in the vast and beautiful Arcade or Gallery, or whatever it is called. Blocks of tall new buildings of t…
56. [Hanged with a Golden Rope]
    One lingers about the Cathedral a good deal, in Venice. There is a strong fascination about it—partly because it is so old, and partly beca…
57. Recipe for an Ash-Cake · Recipe for New English Pie · Recipe for German Coffee
    Recipe for an Ash-Cake Take a lot of water and add to it a lot of coarse Indian-meal and about a quarter of a lot of salt. Mix well togethe…
58. [Titian Bad and Titian Good]
    I wonder why some things are? For instance, Art is allowed as much indecent license today as in earlier times—but the privileges of Literat…
59. Appendix
    Nothing gives such weight and dignity to a book as an Appendix. HERODOTUS
60. The Portier
    Omar Khay’am, the poet-prophet of Persia, writing more than eight hundred years ago, has said: “In the four parts of the earth are many tha…
61. Heidelberg Castle
    Heidelberg Castle must have been very beautiful before the French battered and bruised and scorched it two hundred years ago. The stone is…
62. The College Prison
    It seems that the student may break a good many of the public laws without having to answer to the public authorities. His case must come b…
63. The Awful German Language (1)
    A little learning makes the whole world kin.—Proverbs xxxii, 7. I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle,…
64. The Awful German Language (2)
    There, now, the reader can see for himself that this pronoun business is a very awkward thing for the unaccustomed tongue. I suppose that i…
65. The Awful German Language (3)
    Gentlemen: Since I arrived, a month ago, in this old wonderland, this vast garden of Germany, my English tongue has so often proved a usele…
66. Legend of the Castles
    Called the “Swallow’s Nest” and “The Brothers,” as Condensed from the Captain’s Tale In the neighborhood of three hundred years ago the Swa…
67. German Journals
    The daily journals of Hamburg, Frankfort, Baden, Munich, and Augsburg are all constructed on the same general plan. I speak of these becaus…