342 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



and following the channel of a stream soon came to a suc- 

 cession of huts, which, late as it was, had not yet been 

 deserted by the Senner. The huts found in these remote 

 places are very different from those around Berchtesga- 

 den or Baierisch Zell. Such are neat, clean, and pretty; 

 and often indeed will fully satisfy those idyllic expecta- 

 tions with which many a tourist sets out to visit them. 

 In these, too, you always meet dairy-maids :* here only 

 Senner are to be found, — men who at first sight look 

 something between a bandit and a savage, with much 

 of both in their dwelling and mode of life. A person not 

 accustomed to these huts would start on being told that 

 it was here he must take up his quarters for the coming 

 week. But you get accustomed to the semi- civilized life, 

 and to the discomforts which, at first, seem to meet you 

 at every turn ; and soon invent clever contrivances, and 

 learn to prize the little conveniences your ingenuity has 

 supplied. 



* It is impossible not to smile on reading the following note, apnt 

 by a Sennerinn from her hut on the mountain to the apothecary inthe 



little town of . In spite of her demand for rouge — to win more 



surely, perhaps, some truant-lover — there is something very unsophisti- 

 cated in the coaxing epistle ; and, being in ignorance of the name and 

 application of what she asks for, she in it betrays her thorough simpli- 

 city : — 



" Ich mochte gern ein solches Ding Wie es so einige Frauen haben 

 die gar so Schon roth aussehen wir nahnen (nennen) sie halt den an- 

 strich oter (oder) zinober wie man es nenen soil sie sollten mir aber das 

 rechte geben sie mochten aber so gut sein und es darin Schreiben wie es 

 sol angewented werten und ich werte inen (ihnen) dafur zur rererung 

 (Erinnerung) Etelweis steckel schiken." 



Of the above, which is an exact copy of the original, the following 

 is a pretty fair translation : — 



"I should like to have that sort of thing that some women have 

 who look so lovely red we call it the paint or vermilion as they say 

 but you must be sure to send me the right but you must be so good and 

 write inside how it is to be used and I will send you in l'emembrance a 

 posy of edelweis." 



