. Switzerland as described by great writers . one side and women on the other—and when the time forcommunion arrives the men file one behind the other inlong procession to the table at which they reverentlystand with bowed head. The women follow, and thewhole time the Bible is read aloud from the pulpit by theschoolmaster. The effect on a stranger is impressive anddevotional. One may well be shocked by the bare uglinessof the interior of the church, and especially by the hugeblack pipe of the stove, which passes, without any cere-mony, clean through the east window. But the goodCalvinist mind
. Switzerland as described by great writers . one side and women on the other—and when the time forcommunion arrives the men file one behind the other inlong procession to the table at which they reverentlystand with bowed head. The women follow, and thewhole time the Bible is read aloud from the pulpit by theschoolmaster. The effect on a stranger is impressive anddevotional. One may well be shocked by the bare uglinessof the interior of the church, and especially by the hugeblack pipe of the stove, which passes, without any cere-mony, clean through the east window. But the goodCalvinist mind requires evidently no external aid to de-votion, just as the Calvinist body is satisfied with thehardest of deal seats, which often have no backs at all. Inthe churchyard we found one English grave, quite over-grown with nettles. It is that of a young orphan girl, whodied here seventy years ago, at the age of poor little grave seems always to appeal to us, and wecarefully tend it and plant it with flowers, and ask ourselves. < H z o u < h4 IN CHALET LAND 321 what was the sad history of Rose Hopkins,* and whatbrought her to die so far from her English home. Agriculture is naturally the chief industry of these moun-tain folk. Neither the vine, corn, nor any edible grainwill grow at this altitude—thirty-seven hundred feet—andapples, pears, currants, gooseberries, and wild strawberriesand raspberries are the only fruit, but the crops of hay aresuperabundant. The process of hay making, is, owing tothe dryness of the climate, much shorter than with whole family turn out with the first ray of light tomow, the women also using the scythe, and there is littlehired help. The next process is to ^^fener (throw thehay high into the air with a fork), and by the next day,with the help of a broiling sun, it is ready to be put intocock, and carried at once to the barn. A large net, called a ^^ filard^^ is spread on the ground,and an enormous amount of hay put
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