Off the main lines of travel it is rather hard for foreigners to get accommodate The innkeepers all protest that there is no rom, even when it is patent to all that the inn is empty. At one place recently the landlords of the solitary inn of a village protested that they had gone out of Mess, and theneighbors all chimedinin such a sincere way that we were fain to go back to the last village passed to spend the night. Even the children in the street took the cue and added their assurances that the place had been shut up to guests for a long time. Making the Best of it, The winter promises to be a severe one.
heavy snow with a temperature of ten degrees Fahrenheit has put the oer people, about here, who depend on the hills For winter fuel, ina condition considerable suffering. But it is wonderful what a great amount of discomfort. they will cheerfully bear. A short tin were snowbvund at a small mar) and shared the ral room with lot of Those who were well prepared had a small square of dog skin to put under them on the ground, anda small wilt to cover two. The others had a single padded upper garment and thin cotton trou us. Huddled together in an almost unreengnizable heap, the verned to he able to sleep most of the time. An abundance of warm clothing, camp with warm blankets and coniforts, scoteely sufficed to keep the foreigner in tolerable endurance of the bleak conditions of damp fluor, broken lattice window with no paper, fitting door through which and under which the slow-laden wind came in gre gusts; but all through the dismal day and two bitter nights no complaint was heard from these poor fellows. The second morning the foreigners trudged wff through the snow and left the others to the enjoy-
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