Produced by Anonymous Volunteers, John Greenman and David Widger

A TRAMP ABROAD, Part 4.

By Mark Twain

(Samuel L. Clemens)

First published in 1880

Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition

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ILLUSTRATIONS:

1. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2. TITIAN'S MOSES 3. THE AUTHOR'S MEMORIES 119. BLACK FOREST GRANDEE 120. THE GRANDEE'S DAUGHTER 121. RICH OLD HUSS 122. GRETCHEN 123. PAUL HOCH 124. HANS SCHMIDT 125. ELECTING A NEW MEMBER 126. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES 127. FRIENDS 128. PROSPECTING 129. TAIL PIECE 130. A GENERAL HOWL 131. SEEKING A SITUATION 132. STANDING GUARD 133. RESULT OF A JOKE 134. DESCENDING A FARM 155. A GERMAN SABBATH 136. AN OBJECT OF SYMPATHY 137. A NON-CLASSICAL STYLE 138. THE TRADITIONAL CHAMOIS 139. HUNTING CHAMOIS THE TRUE WAY 140. CHAMOIS HUNTER AS REPORTED 141. MARKING ALPENSTOCKS 142. IS SHE EIGHTEEN OR TWENTY 143. I KNEW I WASN'T MISTAKEN 144. HARRIS ASTONISHED 145. TAIL PIECE 146. THE LION OF LUCERNE 147. HE LIKED CLOCKS 148. "I WILL TELL YOU" 149. COULDN'T WAIT 150. DIDN'T CARE FOR STYLE 151. A PAIR BETTER THAN FOUR 152. TWO WASN'T NECESSARY 153. JUST THE TRICK 154. GOING TO MAKE THEM STARE 155. NOT THROWN AWAY 156. WHAT THE DOCTOR RECOMMENDED 157. WANTED TO FEEL SAFE 158. PREFERRED TO TRAMP ON FOOT 159. DERN A DOG, ANYWAY 160. TAIL PIECE 161. THE GLACIER GARDEN 162. LAKE AND MOUNTAINS (MONT PILATUS) 163. MOUNTAIN PATHS 164. "YOU'RE AN AMERICAN--SO AM I" 165. ENTERPRISE 166. THE CONSTANT SEARCHER 167. THE MOUNTAIN BOY 168. THE ENGLISHMAN 169. THE JODLER 170. ANOTHER VOCALIST 171. THE FELSENTHOR 172. A VIEW FROM THE STATION 173. LOST IN THE MIST 174. THE RIGI-KULM HOTEL 175. WHAT AWAKENED US 176. A SUMMIT SUNRISE 177. TAIL PIECE

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER XXII The Black Forest--A Grandee and his Family--The Wealthy Nabob--A New Standard of Wealth--Skeleton for a New Novel--Trying Situation--The Common Council--Choosing a New Member Studying Natural History--The Ant a Fraud--Eccentricities of the Ant--His Deceit and Ignorance--A German Dish--Boiled Oranges

CHAPTER XXIII Off for a Day's Tramp--Tramping and Talking--Story Telling--Dentistry in Camp--Nicodemus Dodge--Seeking a Situation--A Butt for Jokes--Jimmy Finn's Skeleton--Descending a Farm--Unexpected Notoriety

CHAPTER XXIV Sunday on the Continent--A Day of Rest--An Incident at Church--An Object of Sympathy--Royalty at Church--Public Grounds Concert--Power and Grades of Music--Hiring a Courier

CHAPTER XXV Lucerne--Beauty of its Lake--The Wild Chamois--A Great Error Exposed--Methods of Hunting the Chamois--Beauties of Lucerne--The Alpenstock--Marking Alpenstocks--Guessing at Nationalities--An American Party--An Unexpected Acquaintance--Getting Mixed Up--Following Blind Trails--A Happy Half--hour--Defeat and Revenge

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 by Mark Twain
• 2: But the diffused light takes color from moss and foliage
• 3: Paul Hoch comes to old Huss and says
• 4: Old Huss enthusiastically Wake her up
• 5: He fetches up against a pebble
• 6: But the crippled ant is at a disadvantage
• 7: We went down the glen after supper
• 8: They instituted open air dentistry
• 9: Nur noth'n' he ain' no business to do
• 10: While Nicodemus was in swimming
• 11: And glanced up the steep hillside
• 12: Inanition is the right rest for it
• 13: She was the Empress of Germany
• 14: I suppose the Fremersberg is a very low grade music
• 15: And only the experienced chamois hunter can do either
• 16: The article of commerce called chamois skin is another fraud
• 17: Harris said Yes but name the state
• 18: Deeper and deeper into the mire
• 19: Musingly That is very singular
• 20: But I seemed to be about out of non committal things
• 21: It must have been gratification
• 22: These things are all manifestly impossible
• 23: They meant an asylum an IDIOT asylum
• 24: There would be no Lion of Lucerne
• 25: But in Lucerne I instantly saw that I could impair his mind
• 26: You will prefer that we visit the delegation tonight
• 27: And then get right along back to Tennessee
• 28: Slushy early spring roads with
• 29: To go back to Lucerne and its fishers
• 30: Sometimes they rose straight up out of the lake
• 31: I never got bored on a trip like this
• 32: You ought to stop at the Schweitzerhof
• 33: I just run over my little old ICH HABE GEHABT
• 34: If a person starts in to jabber jabber jabber about scenery
• 35: Swinging his alpenstock ahead of him
• 36: He also jodeled us out of sight
• 37: For there is no opiate like Alpine pedestrianism
• 38: Spectral hotel where the precipice had been
• 39: On a forty foot scaffold on top of the Alps