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can on the tr^in mid it looked to hor if &o&e very orderly 
poreen bad just "b^eii over the country cl aaning it all up, iliat 
expresses it— only I %ue.m thoy ^ge op clean ^ and the;y don 1 1 throw 
tilings on the street, It Basle there was a tr&nafei to another 
depot and a wait of at out 2 hours f 'part of which lunQ 1 spent 
consuming an enormous dimmer —then had nothing more till hreakfas. 
at i'raulein Schneider 1 a this morning ahout 9:30. At table with 
ne at Baale f outdoors, as seems to ho the custom everywhere in 
Europe) was an iingliBh woman* She asked if I wasn't from the 
,f 3tit6B* if (my .speech hewrayeth me) . Asking where I had been* 
what 1 was doing t oto* (asking »xue8ticns is not exclusively a 
Yankee characteristic) I told her of the suffering in Vienna* 
%*m jolly glad of it , f she said, sail proceeded like a 1000 
patriotoer the world over . She had the rest of the conversation { 
to f her self * also her smokes » though slys offered m one,- — -Ehe 
Gertaan train wae aleo clean* and it had a conductor* It vms 
the firet journey since the first from ^aris on the Orient 
press, Yihm® the train Boomed to have some laan&gament * I was 
second class — it is ho clean, 1 could have taken 3rd hoth in 
Switzerland and Germany* ie got to 3tutt^:rt just oh out dark t 
after ft o 1 clock* The journey up the ftbiat valley "beautiful. 
| saw a stork striding through a field and before 1 recovered £r©§ 
m$ ama. sseiu ant aaw another standing over hor nest -poking in it with 
her hill^the neat on the ridge pole of a red tiled roof* It 
seamed like a Gorman fairy story picture* X could not see anything 
of Heilelhurg, Vfef train seemed to run in ahd hack out again, and 
it im® |it.tl|lg dark, too* Ah out midnight 111 conductor spout od 
a lot of Seraan into the compartment \There four of us ward half 
asleep* I automatically handed out my ticket t hut that wasn't it. 
f J?horo another compartment gans leer and if one of the Damm 
would mitkommexi sie schlafen kttamen und die andere Barmi auch 
