BAIEKISCH ZELL. 



>wer to overcome them. The smell of the moistened 

 earth, and the gum-like exhalations of the pine-forest, 

 are more grateful to you than all the odours of Araby 

 the Blest. 



As we went along, I asked Berger about the elder 

 of the brothers Solacher, and how he was so badly 

 wounded by the poachers. I knew he had been dis- 

 abled by them, but all the attendant circumstances I 

 had never heard, or had forgotten them. 



"That happened," said Berger, "about an hour's 

 walk from Schlier See. A great number of the fo- 

 resters had had a rendezvous, to watch for poachers. 

 I don't know how many there were, but from all the 

 neighbouring forests some came from Tegernsee and 

 Baierisch Zell, Schlier See, Kreuth, and Fallep. There 

 were altogether fifteen Jager. They had already been 

 out three days, and it came on very bad weather, 

 with pouring rain. It was useless staying out any 

 longer, so they separated to go home. The others 

 had gone some distance, when Joseph Solacher and 

 an assistant-forester who was with him heard a shot. 

 They both ran forwards as fast as they could to 

 where the report came from, and said, 'There are 

 those rascally Kranzberger boys* shooting again ! but 

 we have caught them now, and they shall repent it.' 

 The Kranzberger boys were two youths who lived in a 



* In the mountains the word "boy" (" Bube," or in the dialect 

 ' Bua,") does not always imply one in the age of boyhood, but is used 

 when speaking of young men generally, as Burns does the word 

 " lads," which is equivalent to it. 



