CHAPTER XV. 



BAIEEISCH ZELL. 



ON leaving Kreuth I started once more for Fischbachau, 

 and it was with sincere pleasure I looked forward to 

 finding myself again the guest of the worthy forester. 

 I should also be glad to pay the Solachers a visit, 

 and tell them I had met their brother, to pass again 

 a pleasant evening in their comfortable dwelling, and 

 see once more that sweetest picture of maidenhood 

 the gentle and blushing Marie. 



From Berger I heard that the chamois had re-ap- 

 peared ; he had seen several during my absence, and 

 had besides tracked a good stag near the spot where 

 we had met the deer on the first day of our going out. 

 He felt sure we should be able to get a shot or two, 

 and this assurance made me all the more anxiously 

 long for the rain to cease and the weather to clear up. 

 But still it kept pouring down, and the whole of Satur- 

 day and Sunday not even a glimpse of blue sky was 

 to be obtained. On Monday afternoon all changed; 



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