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Photo and copyright by Donald McLeish 



A tyrolese: pasturage 



The game played by the Tyrolese peasant, his wife and children, from their tenderest 

 years upwards, six days out of seven is a hard one beyond description. The soil is poor, 

 the little patch of arable land is situated on a slope steep as a church-roof, and the necessary 

 manure has to be carried up in baskets, mostly on women's shoulders, for the men are away 

 doing yet harder jobs; the climate is rough, hardly a month without frost, and seven months 

 of deep snow, which in some years falls to an incredible depth. Last winter, according to 

 official sources, 21 feet of snow fell in the valley of Brandenberg, and the houses were 

 buried up to the first-floor windows. Sparse crops of rye and oats are all he can raise 

 beyond his dairy produce wherewith to feed himself and his offspring.^W. A. BailliE- 

 Grohman. 



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