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CHAPTER IX. 



KREUTH. 



ON coming down next morning 1 found coffee await- 

 ing me, which Nanny had made in order that I might 

 have a warm breakfast before starting. We took the 

 same road as the preceding day, till near the summit 

 of the mountain ; we then directed our steps at once 

 to the ridge, whence a view could be obtained far 

 down its sides and into the deep bottom. Here we 

 waited a long time, in hopes that some chamois would 

 be on the move, but in vain. One of the delights 

 attending the pursuit of game in the highlands is, 

 that, even should the pleasure of a successful day's 

 sport be wanting, the grandeur of the scenery amidst 

 which you move is in some sort a recompense for 

 the labour endured. It is ever varying ; and should 

 the cloud-drift or the sun-rays not produce their end- 

 less changes, you are sure that in going a hundred 

 steps further some new feature will present itself, or 

 that you will see the same under a totally different 



