With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . Xf\Bw \b^ %Jte>- J h The Dogs of St. Bernard. dogs. 275 people living in it had tunneled under the snow, around the outsideof the building. If this was the way it was on the 20th of June,you can easily imagine what an awfully cold and stormy place itmust be to live during the entire winter. It took our horses a longtime to take us up the mountain, but when we went down on theItalian side they went quite rapidly, and in one hour and forty min-utes from the time we left the Hotel de la Prosa, where the
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . Xf\Bw \b^ %Jte>- J h The Dogs of St. Bernard. dogs. 275 people living in it had tunneled under the snow, around the outsideof the building. If this was the way it was on the 20th of June,you can easily imagine what an awfully cold and stormy place itmust be to live during the entire winter. It took our horses a longtime to take us up the mountain, but when we went down on theItalian side they went quite rapidly, and in one hour and forty min-utes from the time we left the Hotel de la Prosa, where the snowwas so very deep, we were down in the village of Airolo, wherelittle girls were selling ripe cherries. It seemed as though we hadjumped right out of the heart of winter, into the pleasant and fruit-ful days of summer. On the top of each of these mountain passes, there is builtwhat is called a hospice, which means hospitality, the same wordfrom which we get our word hospital. These buildings are erectedfor the entertainment of poor travelers, who are compelled to crossthe mountains in the winter. There are a number of monks, wholi
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