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title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04
author: Twain, Mark
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  CHAPTER XXV Lucerne--Beauty of its Lake--The Wild Chamois--A Great Cruel old man, know that I come with claims which even of the Black Forest lives to a good old age, blessed with the love of Harris said that if the best writer in the world once got the slovenly philosopher Harris said that the average man would not yell in either Peter coming like a cannon-shot; how judiciously we got out of the way, going on all the time, day and night, in bed and out of it. steamers, black with people, are coming and going all the time; and way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his said he hadn''t time to take anything to eat, he only had a little claim these mountains and things, but that ain''t my way; no, sir, if they like He said that between ------fools and guide-books, a man


id: 5786
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05
author: Twain, Mark
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  thing, plastered all over on the outside to look like stone, and The man stands up the horses on each side of the thing that projects noticing, but we looked up as he reached the far end of the table. coming to Europe, but a man might travel to the ends of the earth with a roaring torrent of ice-water up to its far source in a sort of little thing to a poor old man like that; he should have had them if he had interest in the thing, because we naturally liked to know who were said Alp-climbing was a different thing from what I had supposed it was, passed close by a glacier on the right--a thing like a great river set it out of the way, with a contented look, and went on with his Ladies near her looked like


id: 5788
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07
author: Twain, Mark
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  CHAPTER XLIV Looking at Mont Blanc--Telescopic Effect--A Proposed in Church--The Old Masters--Tintoretto''s great Picture--Emotional interested, in many ways, in knowing how many people were coming and right--said a party were making a grand ascent, and would come in sight A little after noon we ended the ascent and arrived at the new hotel on a little I said, "NOW I''ve got the right place, anyway ... manners; a lady may traverse our streets all day, going and coming as time; in that case he will be sure to come and bid you good-by and American student said that for some time he had been under sentence been hard at work on our German during several weeks at that time, and The people near by turned, and saw an old man, in a I think a German daily journal doesn''t do any good to speak of, but at


id: 5787
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06
author: Twain, Mark
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  wall-like butt end of a huge glacier, which looked down on us from an or four hundred feet--a thing which, of course, no man could do. summit over a precipice four thousand feet high, and never seen again. Zermatt would allow half a mile of men and mules to mysteriously we came up against a solid mass of rock about twenty feet high. the way up, and this I ascended, roped to the guides. It said, "The Gorner Glacier travels at an average rate of a little less a day, say thirty feet a year; estimated distance to Zermatt, three and Time required to go by glacier, A LITTLE OVER FIVE "Well, then, it''s a government glacier," said Harris. glacier travels twenty-five feet a year, and the fastest four hundred. "The great peaks rose several thousand feet above the glaciers, and The wise men not only said the glacier moved, but they timed its


id: 5784
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03
author: Twain, Mark
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  CHAPTER XV Down the River--German Women''s Duties--Bathing as We Went--A Town--On a Hill--Exclusiveness of the People--A Queer Old Place--An a cave in a low cliff, which the captain of the raft said had once been In those old, old times, the Count Bruno lived in a great castle near morning, these young people entered and took places near us without cab with a German lady, one day, when she said: there, but the captain said, "Because of late years the government has Except the sleeping old man, everybody was at work, but the place was the children said was four hundred years old, and no doubt it was. young knight named Conrad von Geisberg heard this, he said that if the All day the people went about the castle with troubled faces, and And when I heard you fellows gassing away in the good old American


id: 5783
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02
author: Twain, Mark
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  Rest--The Wedding Chorus--Germans fond of the Opera--Funerals Needed "Of course." I said I must be allowed to act under a French name, so I said I had never heard of a man in his right mind going I walked the floor, turning the thing over in my mind, and finally it He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea One day we took the train and went down to Mannheim to see "King Lear" That is a long time to sit in one place, whether a Wagner opera the night before, and went on to enlarge upon his old and his performance took place--yet his voice was like the distressing noise years old, his right hand was shot away, but he was so interested in the This time I broke a mirror--there were two in the room--I got the


id: 5782
title: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01
author: Twain, Mark
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  CHAPTER IV Student Life--The Five Corps--The Beet King--A Free CHAPTER V The Students'' Dueling Ground--The Dueling Room--The Sword CHAPTER VII Corps--laws and Usages--Volunteering to Fight--Coolness my room waiting for breakfast to come up, we got a good deal interested The famous duel-fighting is confined to the "corps" boys. At the Students'' Dueling-Ground me to the students'' dueling-place. regular dueling-day of one of the corps approaches, its president calls The students fight duels in padded, and with swords in their hands, took their stations; a student Early in the next round the White Corps student got an ugly After that, the White Corps student The student duels in Germany occasion two or three deaths to measure swords with a student of another corps; he is free to It is said that the student likes to appear on the street and in other of the swords, but an American student said, "It would not be quite


id: 10447
title: October Vagabonds
author: Le Gallienne, Richard
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  "Great bunch of weeds," he said presently, without looking up, and still life had been passed out-of-doors with trees and skies, long dream-like "Walk to New York?" said Colin, with a surprised whistle. "Old man," he said, "that''s just great. We had thought we should like to see how it looked written in trees and softly called Colin, who was waiting in the road, and together we looked "Sheldon''s evidently a good place to know," I said. Here is a little picture of a wayfaring day which I made while Colin was apples, there came a mellow sound like soft thunder through the trees. own feelings; and that some wise and beautiful old book knew and said it suggestion came like a voice from heaven for poor Colin, one of whose "I don''t know what''s the matter, old man," he said, "but I think I had "I''m afraid," said poor Colin, "I can walk no more to-day.


id: 42252
title: Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
author: Lindsay, Vachel
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  gradually transformed till it looked like that of a show-man. about a man walking rapidly away from his home town to tell all men Man. I have walked in eastern Kansas where the hedged fields and the about sermon-time, and feeling like repenting, I walked in. A little while back a few people began to ask me to work for my in and eat anyway." The man who accepts my offer of work may let me When I asked the way to Tipton the farmer wanted me to walk the the old days literary men used to be obliged to do such things. am near a queer little Mexican house built of old railroad ties. Let me tell you of a typical wheat-harvesting day. The old farmer, too stiff for work, comes out on his dancing pony and Like many a restaurant in Kansas, it was a sort of farm-hand''s


id: 59813
title: The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers
author: nan
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  You may walk by night or by day, in summer or in winter, in fair Consider how a man walking approaches a little town; he sees it a long It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great--where I have heard it said that you may, when the moody fit comes on, walk course of which I often walked from twenty to thirty miles a day. of mind soon gave way to the influence of his natural good spirits, country-looking man, in a large jockey great-coat, the owner of the enjoy the said pleasant walks, the old town was not exactly the place "Won''t you walk in, sir?" said the elderly man. How one enjoys one''s supper at one''s inn, after a good day''s walk, stockings, who walk their fifty miles a day: three hours'' march is his


