IN THE market-place; at CORTINA 



This little town, situated in the Ampezzo-Tal, 4,000 feet above the sea, has a population 

 of only about 800 ; yet here boys may be seen painting and drawing from nature, making 

 filigree work, wood mosaics, and other artistic objects in the cabinet-making school, where 

 the highest art of the wood-worker is taught. The women devote their spare time to lace- 

 making, and the artistic quality of the product is of a high order. 



fending them, than her neighbors in those 

 sunny days "before the war." The snow 

 lies deep now upon all those lovely roads 

 and high, steep passes ; no one is tempted 

 to walk there as upon those summer days 

 when, in spite of forts and soldiers, they 

 made such delicious playgrounds. Each 

 one who knows them, however, or even 

 one of them, turns back wistfully in 

 thought to those happy, care-free hours 

 and wonders if they are to come no more. 

 Originally our plan had been to follow 

 roads "to motor-cars unknown." There 

 are such — either because of a beneficent 

 government or an impossible grade — but 

 there are not many. This is an age of 

 rapid and incessant motion. One goes 

 for a drive, not to see the land, but to 

 annihilate space ; it is as exhilarating as 

 coasting. With tight-shut mouth and 

 wide-fixed eyes, he awaits the end of the 

 journey, draws a long breath, and recom- 

 mences. 



It is very delightful, this bird-like 

 flight, this panoramic grasp of miles of 

 beautiful earth. 



THE feather-hatted TYROLEAN GUARD 



But it is along the wayside that one 

 makes acquaintance with flower and fern, 

 with beast and bird, and with one's fel- 

 low-man. No one who has tramped Ty- 

 rolean roads from Venice to Cortina and 

 the Brenner, from Sterzing to Meran, 

 from Cortina to Bozen, over Tre Croci 

 to Misurina, down the Eggen-Tal, has 

 failed to notice and to remember the 

 Kaiserjager, the feather-hatted Tyrolean 

 guard. Recruited solely in Tyrol, accus- 

 tomed to its high altitudes and its steep 

 mountain sides from babyhood, hunters 

 by birth, they need little drill save in the 

 code and manual of arms. Up the thickly 

 wooded, steep mountain sides they scram- 

 ble quicker than the sturdy, sure-footed 

 ponies which carry the light artillery they 



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