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■f'A "board the last two days, and have ted only a little bread and coffee 
since and do not feel hungry. 1 wired Frnu Schneider. 0h t hut 
it will be a comfort t© hear Seutaoh again. 
Iu Ceeterreich, swischen Salzburg nnd linz, Mars ZZ. The train is 
stopped for a while and I have adaired th® picturesque dorfohen (»%mz 
t© b® a woodyard) which shuts out. a wider view. It was s© lat© wh«n 
\?® left Paris that I did n©t se® wuch ©f Fran©® east ©f Juris. Th® 
trees wsr® not primed as they ar® in Poraandy , so I ©or. Id guess a fan 
©f than, I think. This first-class o©Hpart««nt I shar® with an ag«d 
Fran oh woman ©f aauntalnaus proportions. 1 aa acLueeaod into about 
12 inches by the window, whil® sh© sits with her l«gs stretched out 
on the sae&t (aa if on a day-bed) with h®r fe®t against a®. Sh® is 
arrayed in satin and diamonds, se ©f course her iaann@rs must be par- 
foot, and it does h# proud t© have h@r wip® her foot ©n a®. It is 
dreadfully ©old, and X have ay ©leak on and everything ®lse I possess 
under it. Tier daughter, baby, and nurs® oooupy th« next ©oapartnont. 
Whan the fat woman does not hare har feat ©n the ©eat the whole fam- 
ily are in this ©OKpartnont. Th© hahy is a perfect darling, and the 
nurse, .about as old as th« grandmother hut thin and active' is pietur- 
as.que. The young mother is also richly dressed in what I should take 
for evening clothes, law-neoked and quit® aleevleaa— when sh® lays 
. aside her fur coat. They ar® going to Tagii® . They asked *e sou- 
thing in i'renoh and in ay effort to reply I let slip a word of Geraan, 
The grandmother asked if I was Alleaaada* I hastened to assure her I 
wasn't, hut only Amerioain®. My first sight of th® terrible Huns was 
about midnight, wh@n w© ©roused th® frontier. I handed down say pass- 
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port fros th® upper berth. Th® berths ar@ spoon-shaped. ' I leapt 
waiting with a ©rick in .ay neck «ff©ry little whil®. With ®y sap af 
Surop® in ay hand I ©an ko®p track of whor® xm are, b© I recognised 
th© groan, not blue, Danube, th® oals, not rapidly rolling, Isar, and 
