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steep hillside. We reached the top, it is quite a elinb, about 210022, 
sua ate eur lunch in a bier garden at the summit, ixau Schneider and 
her hrether had hier and Vema and I aaj game pink sodr, water, it was 
my treat, Mer and all— this is the way peeple lese their principles 
and their morals when they go to Europe. There is a church on top of 
the hill. We leaked is, %$ §'• ^® r y old, built by on© of the emperors 
after escaping defeat from somebody, I did not understand the German 
explanation altogether and did not have time to question till I sot it 
straight. It seems to be a sort of automatic self-acting church. 
There is an altar, hut no place for people, and they do not have mass 
there. It stands up there on the hilltop all by itself. After lunch 
we went across a valley and up th® Eahlenberf, leopoldborg is mostly 
covered with oak, this with pines. The view from both sumnits is 
glorious. Thee® hills belong to Klostemeuberg— the church there. 
They are the beloved Wienerwald, where all the Wieners spend their 
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Sundays and holidays . It seemed to me the whole city was out there. 
It is a very stiff climb up the hill , yet there were old men and 
women and little children. Everyone , or at least the men, wear a 
rtioksaok, carrying their lunch and th© family wraps as they shed . 
thorn on the ascent, as they become heated. Theye people have a. 
wonderful capacity for enjoyment. They were having such a good time 
eating their horrible rye broad and a little fat pork rind— yes they 
eat the rind, I saw them doing it. A family at a table next us was 
made up of grandparents, parents and two little children, the men 
with ancient corduroy trousers, the women with handkerchiefs on their 
heads, evidently very poor, yet they had spent th© carfare to get out 
to the hills this first spring day and were enjoying it immensely. 
There is such a gallant bravery about these Wieners— to maJre a gay 
holiday in the midst of such suffering and anxiety, Easter seems 
to be the great holiday of Wien. They give the children presents 
as we do on Christmas. The Onter Has so (Easter rabbit ) hides the 
