. Germany;. imploring mercy. Lore lifts up hervoice, and making her supplication holds up a blond-haired boy. The artless words of Lore and theinnocent face of the child touch the heart of ColonelSperent, the Swedish commander. The little blondchild bears a striking resemblance to the darling ofhis heart and home, whom death had but recentlytaken from him. He lifts up the child and seatshim by his side, proclaiming mercy as he ridesonwards amid the joyous acclamations of themultitude. We turn now to the last of the three jewels ofthis part of Bavaria—the old walled town ofNordlingen. What a we
. Germany;. imploring mercy. Lore lifts up hervoice, and making her supplication holds up a blond-haired boy. The artless words of Lore and theinnocent face of the child touch the heart of ColonelSperent, the Swedish commander. The little blondchild bears a striking resemblance to the darling ofhis heart and home, whom death had but recentlytaken from him. He lifts up the child and seatshim by his side, proclaiming mercy as he ridesonwards amid the joyous acclamations of themultitude. We turn now to the last of the three jewels ofthis part of Bavaria—the old walled town ofNordlingen. What a wealth of sixteenth-centuryhouses, with every form of gable and with so manydifferent styles of architecture! Its streets arecrooked, and its lanes dark and dingy, but theyhave many picturesque features to reward thewayfarer. No town in Germany has preserved its DINKELSBUHL Part of the town is surrounded by walls and building on the left is an ancient corn-millwhich in mediaeval days was BAVARIA 101 walls with such care. Its gates and towers remainas they appeared to Gustavus Adolphus and hiswarriors. It is easy to walk all round the a roof with many an opening for the sharp-shooter, and a railing on the town side for theprotection of the pedestrian, the path on the wallsleads you through the towers at the gates. Theyare now pressed into the service of the arts ofpeace. This serves the rope-maker as a next is a store-room where the tanner isdrying his hides, and another is a carpenters shopfilled with the sounds of the hammer, the axe, andthe saw. What a view is before you as you lookupon the country round ! Nordlingen lies on theedge of a great circular depression of land. It hasbeen compared to a kettle great and deep. Inprehistoric days, geologists tell us, this was a lakelarger than Lake Constance. Now it is a fertileregion rejoicing in its rich meadows, its smilingorchards, and its fruitful fields. What a view ofthe town itse
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