. Eight journeys abroad. TEGERN SEE, TYROL tiful and I hope will be a success, altho the weather is fitfulthese days and we may be caught by rain. Innsbruck iscertainly very beautiful and surrounded entirely by snowcapped mountains. Yesterday afternoon we took a beautifuldrive to a very old Castle, Ambass, near here, owned by theEmperor of Austria and your Mother was greatly pleasedwith the old furniture and paintings and a fine display ofarmor. They have a funny currency here, Guldens worth 40cents are the units divided into a hundred Kreutzers and 381 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD RA l^MgC w^%^ ^^J^
. Eight journeys abroad. TEGERN SEE, TYROL tiful and I hope will be a success, altho the weather is fitfulthese days and we may be caught by rain. Innsbruck iscertainly very beautiful and surrounded entirely by snowcapped mountains. Yesterday afternoon we took a beautifuldrive to a very old Castle, Ambass, near here, owned by theEmperor of Austria and your Mother was greatly pleasedwith the old furniture and paintings and a fine display ofarmor. They have a funny currency here, Guldens worth 40cents are the units divided into a hundred Kreutzers and 381 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD RA l^MgC w^%^ ^^J^^^^HBK ^^H Jfy ^^r ^^Hft/^^l 4 AUSTRIAN JAGER REGIMENT IN THE FERN PASS. CASTLli AMBASS. INNSBRUCK382 GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA now they have Kroners about Y^ a Gulden, divided intoHellers, lOO Hellers make i Kroner and two Hellers makeone Kreutzer. This involves a calculation at every trans-action that resembles very much the Jews who said the manwanted ^lo for his coat, would take ^8 but would sell at $6and it cost him ^4 and the buyer would give ^2. So everytime I buy a cigar it takes a lot of Japanese figuring to payfor it and I pull out my chicken feed coins and find I haveto double the Hellers to make Kreutzers! Such is life! Ishall be glad to get back to a country where we will havedollars and cents, or more properly dollars and lots of good bye, old boy, write me fully care Morgan Harjes& Co., and enjoy yourself and grow strong and well. YourMother joins me in affectionate greetings and love to you. Affectionately, F. H. R. Lermoos, Tirol, Aug. 13th, Fanny, I have thought all day of how you would enjoy this driveon thi
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