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way. It was a "Ion Fumer" compartment, out they fumed just the same 
as they always ao. Occasionally a man asks permission to smoke in a 
non-smoker. I always grant it, since most of them smoke with oat ask- 
ing, so 1 man should not he denied who had a little manners. One man 
in the compartment looked so like my brother 1 wondered what national- 
ity he was. He spoke trench an* German and very good English. At the 
frontier ha handed in a Polish passport. They came through the train 
for our passports at the Italian-Austrian frontier, and took them 
away with them. This English speaking passenger assured me they would 
he returned later. When I came hack from breakfast I saw the others 
had theirs and I made a frantic search through the cars till I finnd 
the passport man and got mine. I found him the center of a buss of 
in German 
many languages. Someone was explaining/that an Irelander had been 
given back a Russian passport J The poor Irelander, a Catholic priest 
evidently returning from Rome, looked as worried as I would have been. 
Xbt Tyrol is so lovely, all hill a and little valleys and little 
waterfalls, and snowcapped mountains above. The wide-roofed houses 
are so picturesque and the wild flowers were out by millions. Like 
everywhere else in Austria the landscape lacks cattle. I have not 
seen a cow in all Austria. All the milk cows went to Prance long 
ago and the beef cattle, if they had any I suppose have been eat eh. 
One sees oxen working in the fields but never a grazing animal. The 
Haokel ' s little goat is the only animal of the kind 1 saw, and she 
was kept in a shed. They had milk at the Hackels— I asked about the 
cattle. Prof. Haokel said there are a few, but they are fed in stalls 
A t Kuf stein i got my trunk ana the man spent about a minute 
looking at it-all that journey for that. I had left Austria with a 
few thousand kronen and had not had it changed, so I had money to pay 
the various charges (about 25 cents in our money). The train back was 
