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bearing, etc. . . . After having kept us thus 

 on coals for two hours they gave us back our 

 passports, and we went our way. At one 

 o'clock we arrived at Salzburg as hungry as 

 wolves, but at the gate we had still to wait 

 and give up our passports again in exchange 

 for receipts, in virtue of which we could obtain 

 permits from the police to remain in the city. 

 From our inn, we sent a waiter to get these 

 permits, but he presently returned with the 

 news that we must go in person to take them ; 

 there was, however, no hurry ; it would do in 

 three or four hours ! We had no farther diffi- 

 culty except that it was made a condition of 

 our stay that we should not appear in student's 

 dress. This dress, they said, was forbidden in 

 Austria. They begged More to have his hair 

 cut, otherwise it would be shortened gratis, 

 and also informed us that at our age it was not 

 becoming to dispense with cravats. Happily, 

 I had two with me, and Braun tied his hand- 

 kerchief around his neck. It astonished me, 

 also, to see that we were not entered on the 

 list of strangers published every evening. So 

 it was also, as we found, with other students, 

 though the persons who came with them by 

 the same conveyance, even the children, were 

 duly inscribed. It seems this is a precaution 

 against any gathering of students. . . . 



