. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. ned how the table sank and rose betweeneach course for a change of service, for Ludwig could not endure thepresence of servants. Dorothy turned to Elsie, and said irrelevantly,showing that her thoughts were far away, How do you supposeI can get John to use my money in his new scheme for aidingemigrants? I shall write him to sell every bit of my Chain Light-ning stock, and invest the proceeds in the other enterprise. From the Chiemsee the Count von Hohenberg would have likedto take them to the Koni^ssee and the other more celebrated lakesof this region ; but V
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. ned how the table sank and rose betweeneach course for a change of service, for Ludwig could not endure thepresence of servants. Dorothy turned to Elsie, and said irrelevantly,showing that her thoughts were far away, How do you supposeI can get John to use my money in his new scheme for aidingemigrants? I shall write him to sell every bit of my Chain Light-ning stock, and invest the proceeds in the other enterprise. From the Chiemsee the Count von Hohenberg would have likedto take them to the Koni^ssee and the other more celebrated lakesof this region ; but Valerie was anxious to show her friends herbeloved Zillerthal, and Time was on the wing. 230 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. They left the railroad at Jenbach, and proceeded up the valleyto Zell in a lumbering stage. They travelled slowly; but it waspleasant to enjoy at their leisure the wild beauty of the forests covered the slopes of the near mountains, and in thedistance the grand slopes of the Gerlos were KONIGSSEE. The inhabitants of the Zillerthal travel more than other of singers and players have made their way over their ownand other lands, and have spread the reputation of this vivacious,music-loving clan. A favorite song of theirs is a pathetic lament of aTyrolese for his dead wife. This never fails to draw tears from theeyes of a sympathetic audience; each verse ends with the words — Wenn ich zu meinem Kinde geh,In seinem Aug die Mutter seh. (In my child my comfort lies,I see his mother in his eyes.) To the accompaniment of the zither this simple song is inexpressiblytouching. EXCURSION IN THE BAVARIAN AND AUSTRIAN TYROL 231 At Zell the girls attended one of the Bauern Komedien, inwhich the actors were all simple peasants, though the parts theytook were those of lords and ladies. The play was called Adolfvon Fliehburg, and its plot was founded upon a legend of one ofthe noble houses of the neighborhood. Is it not a little singu
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