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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1862 Excerpt: ...! the Jungfrau, another man roughing the ice for their feet. Your aunt, however, saw they, even they, had had enough of it, so did not ask them to repeat the feat with her, but they carried us both some way up the glacier where it was plain sailing, and where they only wanted a few notches chopped for their feet 1 Her quotation afterwards (I will do her taste the justice to say, not at the time) was, 'Two children sliding on the ice, All on a summer's day!' "The day was wretched, it rained so pouringly as we were going, that the very goats shook their beards at us from the doors into which they had run for shelter; however, just as we got to the spot, it held up, another proof of the advantage of obstinacy. That was one feat, Priscilla! but it was not the best; we have been carried in two open ehairs all over the Wengern Alps, under the Eiger and the Jungfrau, a splendid day all across from Grindelwald to Lauterbrunen. The feat there, was in performing the passage after eleven, which is generally begun at six in the morning, I have been in one of my tantrums at the rumour of war between France and Switzerland, (no very pleasant prospect), and gave way to Gurney vacillation till I lost five good hours, and then cried at having disappointed myself; but after all we started with a prime guide--' a broth of a boy.' At the Scheideck we saw an avalanche, coming as if it had been ordered on purpose, but even the avalanche was nothing to the abiding glories of that scene. "Ever yours, "A. G." September 14. To A. G. and S. M. B., on their arrival from abroad.--"The history of your adventures, and of your being carried on to the glacier, and aunt Sarah's quotation so exactly like herself, how I have enjoyed! I am sure it was a wonder that the second oouplet was not...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235838545
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235838544
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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