APPROACHING THE MOUNTAINS. 



pure bracing air; and the shout and the Jodlcr* of 

 the shepherd-boy or Sennerinn^ already resound in 

 your ears. 



As we approach the now near horizon all wears a 

 different character. The houses are built otherwise, 

 and have altogether another look than those we passed 

 before ; the roofs project over the sides and are bordered 

 with some simple ornaments ; a light wooden balcony 

 is before the windows of the first story, and the walls 

 are of snowy whiteness, and the trellis-work and doors 

 and shutters are neatly and even tastefully painted. 

 It looks gay, and green, and cheerful. Aid on the 

 roofs we now see a bell, which, swinging between its 

 cross-beams, calls home those who are in the fields to 

 dinner or to supper. It is a sign that the wealth of 

 the peasant here consists in pasture-land ; and indeed 

 no corn is seen, but the slopes and plain are covered 

 with rich grass and with lowing kine. And then, too, 

 the passers-by ! The green pointed hat, worn alike 

 by both sexes, with its golden tassel and gay flowers on 

 the brim ; the grey joppe\ and short leathern breeches 

 of the men ; the gold-embroidered boddice and striped 

 petticoat of the women are now not only more frequent, 

 but are almost exclusively seen ; and if we stop at a 

 village, all that meets the eye tells us at once we are 



* Jodler. The peculiar song of all mountaineers, the high notes 

 being always a falsetto. The Brothers Rainer, now in England, 

 sing it in perfection. 



f Senner Sennerinn. Dairy-man dairy-maid. 



{ Joppe is the loose short coat worn by the mountaineer of Bava* 

 ria, and by the Tyrolian peasantry. 



