. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. How people with nothing to docan endure it I do not understand. What with bathing, work,dinner, reports, and tea at His Majestys, I have scarcely time torealize the horrors of the situation. These last three days therehas been a theatre of comedians here; but one is almost ashamedto go, and most people avoid the passage through the rain. I CORRESPONDENCE. 379 am very well through it all, particularly since we have had Kal- tenhauser beer. and are dreadfully cast down from not knowing what to drink. The landlord gives them bad beerin order to forc
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. How people with nothing to docan endure it I do not understand. What with bathing, work,dinner, reports, and tea at His Majestys, I have scarcely time torealize the horrors of the situation. These last three days therehas been a theatre of comedians here; but one is almost ashamedto go, and most people avoid the passage through the rain. I CORRESPONDENCE. 379 am very well through it all, particularly since we have had Kal- tenhauser beer. and are dreadfully cast down from not knowing what to drink. The landlord gives them bad beerin order to force them to drink worse wine. Other news thanthis there is none from this steam-kitchen, unless I talk politics. Gastein, 14th August, 1865. For some days I have had no time to send you any Blome is here again, and we are zealously laboring at themaintenance of peace, and the repair of the fissures in the build-ings. The day before yesterday I devoted a day to the think I wrote you word how fruitless the first was. This time. 380 CHAMOIS-HUNTING. I have at least shot a young chamois, but saw no others in thetlfee hours during which I abandoned my motionless self to theexperiments of the most various insects; and the prattling activityof the waterfall beneath me convinced me of the deep-rooted feel-ing which caused some one before my time to express the wish, Streamlet, let thy rushing be ! In my room, also, this wish isjustified both by day and by night—one breathes on reachingany place where the brutal noise of the waterfall can not beheard. In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, rightacross the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlonginto the brook, some church-steeples height beneath me. Myhealth is good, and I feel myself much stronger. We start onthe 19th—that is Saturday—for Salzburg. The Emperor willprobably make his visit there, and one or two days will be spentbesides at Ischl. The King then goes to Hohenschwangau. Igo to Mu
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