Past and present at the English lakes . Hochnissl, they lookedwestward and saw Grassmoor and Catbels. Butto men accustomed to such heights as Hochnissl orKellerjoch, our Lakeland hills must indeed haveseemed but playthings, and the straight, rushinggrey torrent of the Inn at the town bridge wouldmake Greta or Derwent appear but as their littleLandbach by comparison. Suddenly, from the village of Wear on the oneside and of Stans on the other, shots were said, Surely they must be blasting in thequarries, for the shots were evidently timed. No, said my host, those are guns fired forSt. Pe
Past and present at the English lakes . Hochnissl, they lookedwestward and saw Grassmoor and Catbels. Butto men accustomed to such heights as Hochnissl orKellerjoch, our Lakeland hills must indeed haveseemed but playthings, and the straight, rushinggrey torrent of the Inn at the town bridge wouldmake Greta or Derwent appear but as their littleLandbach by comparison. Suddenly, from the village of Wear on the oneside and of Stans on the other, shots were said, Surely they must be blasting in thequarries, for the shots were evidently timed. No, said my host, those are guns fired forSt. Peter and St. Paul. It is a village fete day. Peasants strolled in. They too had been downfrom the mountain to early service, and restinghere halfway to their homes, took their Tyrolesewine and a crust of bread, and talked sadly of theAnarchist plot at Sarrajevo and its dastardly doublemurder. I went up after breakfast by the little grassy pathat the back of the inn to the Castle. I felt howcuriously wanting in reverence it was, and yet. GERMAN MINERS IN TYROL 97 how well intended, that the plumber shouldhave pierced the body of our Saviour, Whostands in plaster under a covered shrine, with along brass water pipe, from which was continuallyflowing water for the wayfarer. It would havebeen quite easy to have allowed the water to comefrom a pipe at His feet, but this piercing of thebody for a two foot brass pipe was repugnant tome. Two chapels were on the Tower Green. In thelesser one of which, on either side of the altar,were roughly-painted life-size statues of a St. Johnsupporting the fainting Virgin, and a Pieta, saying, Behold the Man! The carving of these figureswas well conceived and bold ; the painting, evi-dently of later date, as bad as it could be. In the larger chapel there was nothing of beauty,and the only interest lay in the vast iron guard forthe alms box, which was let in to a hollow pillar ofblack granite. This chapel was attached to theCastle, now a jumble of cot
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