. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. venteenth century. The chateau was a picturesque feature in the landscape with itsancient towers crowned with extinguisher roofs plated with greentiles. Away back in the fifteenth century the Emperor Maximilianhad been the guest of the castle, and Valeries grandfather, three cen-turies after the event, had celebrated it by having a frieze painted infresco across the front of the chateau on the wall connecting the twoold towers and over the principal entrance. The fresco representedthe welcome given to the Kaiser after his return from his thrilling ad-venture
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. venteenth century. The chateau was a picturesque feature in the landscape with itsancient towers crowned with extinguisher roofs plated with greentiles. Away back in the fifteenth century the Emperor Maximilianhad been the guest of the castle, and Valeries grandfather, three cen-turies after the event, had celebrated it by having a frieze painted infresco across the front of the chateau on the wall connecting the twoold towers and over the principal entrance. The fresco representedthe welcome given to the Kaiser after his return from his thrilling ad-venture on Martinswand. It had been executed by a Munich artistof considerable skill, and although it reminded Elsie when she saw itlater of a circus poster advertising one of Barnums street processions,she soon discovered that it was not an unusual thing in the Tyrol andBavaria for wealthy people to decorate the facades of their houses inthis grotesque manner. The emperor was represented as riding on a 92 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE fe handsomely caparisoned charger, and followed by two sturdy Tyrolesejagers, who carried between them a great boar supposed to have beenkilled in the royal hunt of the earlier F~~ j part of the worthy grafand grafin had de-scended the stepsof the chateau tomeet their sover-eign ; while oddiyenough the cookof the castle wasvisible behindthem, bearing,roasted and servedupon a platter, thehead of the boar, which in the other part of the fresco wasstill attached to his body. The precipice of Martinswand wasvisible from the chateau, and a little shelfof rock is pointed out half way up its dizzyheight, where the emperor, who had beenabsorbed in following a chamois, suddenlyfound himself unable either to advanceor retreat. The people beneath, unableto rescue him, brought a priest, who gavehim absolution from a distance ; and he satdown to await his death. The legend,with its tradition of miraculous rescue,is told in the following ballad: — SCENER
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