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they live ; they settle down, and their children 

 will do as they have done. 



The first thing to be done at Furtwangen is 

 to see the exhibition of the Gewerbevereins, and 

 at Tryberg the Gewerbe Hall, open from May 

 to October. The latter is a wooden building of 

 some taste, where every variety of clock can be 

 seen which the ingenuity of the Schwarzwalder 

 can devise or his fingers execute. Round the 

 walls and on the tables are clocks of every sort. 

 Nearly all are of wood, though here and there is 

 a fragile one of straw or ivory. The first which 

 attracts attention is a very fine specimen of wood 

 carving : the figures and design are cut in lime- 

 wood, and it stands two feet high ; the fingers 

 and hours are of ivory. The attendant puts it to 

 two o'clock, and it forthwith plays a melodious air, 

 as of the most delicate flutes. The next is still 

 larger ; and as the hour strikes, a miniature band 

 plays ' Der Wacht am Rhein." We pass on to 

 one made of beech and walnut, the dark and light 

 wood being charmingly blended. As the fingers 

 touch the hour, two helmeted trumpeters step out 

 and blow the reveille. Then there are cuckoos 

 which strike up at the hour, and thrushes which sing 

 at the quarter; venerable monks standing beneath 

 the belfry ring the hour when midnight comes. 

 The automaton clock comes next, and we watch a 

 sort of Pickwickian fat boy feed himself with rolls 

 till three has finished striking. The taste and 

 minuteness of "the carving in the largest or the 

 smallest point are very great ; the regulator on 

 the pendulum of the smallest clock represents, 

 perhaps, an oak-leaf, or some simple but still 



