. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. bitat in that re-gion of the sky. Upon these were sus-pended the buckler and trusty swordand spear, a memory of the Italian wars,and side by side with them the staff, thebow and the blade of the chase. The beautiful yellow brown fur of theIbex rendered doubly impervious to thebiting blasts by an undergrowth of softwool, the brown and greyish fur of thechamois, the tawny skin of the roc-buck, the silky dark brown pelt of themarmot, the skin of the Alpine hare, sopurely white that the most dexteroushunter can scarcely detect it against thesno
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. bitat in that re-gion of the sky. Upon these were sus-pended the buckler and trusty swordand spear, a memory of the Italian wars,and side by side with them the staff, thebow and the blade of the chase. The beautiful yellow brown fur of theIbex rendered doubly impervious to thebiting blasts by an undergrowth of softwool, the brown and greyish fur of thechamois, the tawny skin of the roc-buck, the silky dark brown pelt of themarmot, the skin of the Alpine hare, sopurely white that the most dexteroushunter can scarcely detect it against thesnow, and the coarser fur of the wildgoat which had been brought in fromthe chase furnishing both raiment andfeed and for barter among the Alninevillages, also covered the rough floornnd formed the rude couches for rest orslumber. The -imple-f implements of the do-mestic nrt=. made from the horn-, hoofs,brums and sinews of these animals, com-pleted the household possesions of Pol-no-Hi? and his son eight cent uries ago. THE KEDI AM) ALLIED FAMILIES. 15. THE a painting by Beihne. This canvas, typical of the Hoch Alpen, is by an allied member of the Keim family. The study wasmade during one of the annual summer jaunts from Munich, Bavaria, where the late artist and his goodwife, Mrs. Julia May Belme, born Keim, resided for twenty-five years, into the Swiss Alps. In rude earth covered shelters nearby, their goats, their sole companionsin winter and source of small profitamong the wandering shepherds andvillagers below in summer, found pro-tection against the violent storms whichswept across those airy wastes. The few straggling acres of pastureground round about on which there ex-isted no known claim save that of na-ture in its wildest and most forlornstate, occupied one of those shelteredshrubby ledges of the Tor and MittelAlpcn. It was these same pastures which, forunknown age-, bad yielded the peculiarnutritious grasses for the Ahnno herdsof goahs from which was pr
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