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Title: Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Boner, Charles, 1815-1870
Subjects: Chamois Hunting -- Germany Bavaria
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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feredto radeln * (trundle) my things to the inn; so help-ing the little fellow to put the luggage on his barrow, offwe set together. But he soon stopped to rest, and whenhe saw me waiting for him, he told me to go on: therewas no need whatever for me to stay, he would be sureand come; and as I saw he wished to have the glory * The sight of the green fields and hedgerows is not more pleasantto him who has been long in populous cities pent, than is to my earthe sound of a genuine provincialism, uttered in a broad dialect, givingearnest as it does of being really beyond the influence of the town. Oncein Somersetshire I remember a peasant pointing out to me a place in thedistance, and telling me it was near where yonder housen were;giving the word house its old Saxon plural. That one word seemedat once to remove me from the haunts of over-civilization, and I feltsure I had really got into the country. It was the same with the radeln of my little peasant-boy, and I welcomed it accordingly.
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APPROACHING THE MOUNTAINS. 17 of performing his piece of work quite alone, I left himto follow at his leisure. I am always glad to employ a child when circum-stances make it possible; first, because I like childrenscompany and to hear their talk, and also because I wishthat they should know how comely a thing it is to beemployed usefully, and how sweet the earnings of onesown labour are. I have a habit, when walking, of scat-tering crumbs for the birds, who are almost sure to findthem; and just so, I fancy, a chance incentive to indus-try, or a little reward for some kindly meant attention,may not be wholly lost, but, being remembered long af-terwards, may incite to a love of occupation, and encou-rage to acts of friendliness and to good behaviour. Mostchildren are delighted to be employed, and the consci-ousness that they are of use makes them quite elate : it isthe germ of a feeling which, if properly nurtured, ripensinto self-respect. Having made my arrangements at the village inno

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