. The Daily paper . f JeannedArc and the battlefields of the Franco-GermanWar. From Orleans they struck northwardsto Paris, though the Forest of staying some days In Paris, they turnednorth-eastward, passing through Rheims, Sedan,and the battlefields which skirt the I- - inco-Gemian frontier. They then struck ,visiting Domremy and the other places associatedwith the youth of Jeanne dArc, who seemslikely to becom^ more and more the heroine ofregenerated Ftunce. Crossing the] froiUlor and striking ftcroMAlsace to Strassburg, they left the French lan-guage l>ehlti
. The Daily paper . f JeannedArc and the battlefields of the Franco-GermanWar. From Orleans they struck northwardsto Paris, though the Forest of staying some days In Paris, they turnednorth-eastward, passing through Rheims, Sedan,and the battlefields which skirt the I- - inco-Gemian frontier. They then struck ,visiting Domremy and the other places associatedwith the youth of Jeanne dArc, who seemslikely to becom^ more and more the heroine ofregenerated Ftunce. Crossing the] froiUlor and striking ftcroMAlsace to Strassburg, they left the French lan-guage l>ehltid them, and had a delightful weekIn the Black Forest, whcuce they enteredSwitzerland ftt Scbafiliausen, aud made theirway by Zurich and Zug to Lucerne. After ftweeks rest there they again took the road andmade almost ft circuit of Switzerland, omittingthe Eugadine. They traversed the whole ofthe country between Geneva, Chur and Con-atanc. Bicycling la Switzerland Involves ftgood deal of walking. It took them for liT. IN EAINY WEATHEU. stance, a b^o^I steady climb of four hours towheel their bicycles to the simimit of theFurka Pass, after which they were compensatedby the nm down on the other side. Theywere able to ride half way over the BnmniugPass, but the Oberalp was too etlfi for they reached Its summit they were able torun tor thirty miles down hill. The tour wasbrought to ft close at Lucerne on the 2nd ofSeptember. The bicycles had covered close uponthree thousand miles since they left Loudon. The machines were In capital order, no part olthe framework having shown any defect, ftndthe machloea tbcmselva* looked as good aanew. The qnestlon of punctures and of bursttyres, which U the crucial difllculty with ftUpneumatics, caused them little trouble. Themachine ridden by the lighter boy, weighted upto about ten stone, was punctured three timM,and thftt ^ridden by the elder, weighted up totwelve stone, was punctured six tlmos. In allcases the punctures were confined
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