376 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



And a brook finds its way on 



Without much ado ; 

 And a lad finds his lassie, 



If his love 's really true. 



Fidelity 's often 



Like a Schnadahufi 

 Before you can look round 



Tis done or gone by. 



And often Fidelity 's 



Like a stag's horn 

 Lost quickly, nor soon found 



When once it is lorn. 



In some parts these " Schnadahiipfln" are sung 

 during the dance. One of the dancers he generally 

 who leads off the figure advances then to the music, 

 sings his verse, returns to his place, and the dance is 

 continued as before. 



Such then is one of the favourite pastimes of the 

 Bavarian mountaineer. No description however can 

 give an adequate idea of the merry scene, when on a 

 holiday such a party has met together. The youths, 

 with then: picturesque dresses, and hats proudly de- 

 corated with the feathers of the blackcock, and a tuft 

 of long hair from the back of some sturdy chamois 

 or throat of the noble hart, with a gay posy peeping 

 from among these trophies of the chase, the village 

 maidens, with their boddices of brightest colours, 

 bordered with gold and laced with chains of silver, 

 to which hang medals of the same metal, their high 

 green hats trimmed with bright flowers and tasselled 

 cord of gold and green, their light brown hair in 

 ample braids, showing itself beneath the broad rim 



