A Tramp Abroad By Mark Twain






































































































 -   For two or three hours
we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful
lake of Thun, with a - Page 299
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For Two Or Three Hours We Jogged Along The Level Road Which Skirts The Beautiful Lake Of Thun, With A Dim And Dreamlike Picture Of Watery Expanses And Spectral Alpine Forms Always Before Us, Veiled In A Mellowing Mist.

Then a steady downpour set in, and hid everything but the nearest objects. We kept the rain out of

Our faces with umbrellas, and away from our bodies with the leather apron of the buggy; but the driver sat unsheltered and placidly soaked the weather in and seemed to like it. We had the road to ourselves, and I never had a pleasanter excursion.

The weather began to clear while we were driving up a valley called the Kienthal, and presently a vast black cloud-bank in front of us dissolved away and uncurtained the grand proportions and the soaring loftiness of the Blumis Alp. It was a sort of breath-taking surprise; for we had not supposed there was anything behind that low-hung blanket of sable cloud but level valley. What we had been mistaking for fleeting glimpses of sky away aloft there, were really patches of the Blumis's snowy crest caught through shredded rents in the drifting pall of vapor.

We dined in the inn at Frutigen, and our driver ought to have dined there, too, but he would not have had time to dine and get drunk both, so he gave his mind to making a masterpiece of the latter, and succeeded. A German gentleman and his two young-lady daughters had been taking their nooning at the inn, and when they left, just ahead of us, it was plain that their driver was as drunk as ours, and as happy and good-natured, too, which was saying a good deal.

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