The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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being left at Baden-Baden, for instead of waiting in the waiting-room,  
we sat down on the platform to wait where the trains come in from the  
other direction. We sat there full ten minutes--and then all of a sudden  
it occurred to me that that was not the right place.  
On the train the principal of the big English school at Nauheim (of  
which Mr. Scheiding was a teacher), introduced himself to me, and then  
he mapped out our day for us (for today and tomorrow) and also drew a  
map and gave us directions how to proceed through Switzerland. He had  
his entire school with him, taking them on a prodigious trip through  
Switzerland--tickets for the round trip ten dollars apiece. He has  
done this annually for 10 years. We took a post carriage from Aachen to  
Otterhofen for 7 marks--stopped at the "Pflug" to drink beer, and  
saw that pretty girl again at a distance. Her father, mother, and two  
brothers received me like an ancient customer and sat down and talked  
as long as I had any German left. The big room was full of red-vested  
farmers (the Gemeindrath of the district, with the Burgermeister at  
the head,) drinking beer and talking public business. They had held  
an election and chosen a new member and had been drinking beer at his  
expense for several hours. (It was intensely Black-foresty.)  
There was an Australian there (a student from Stuttgart or somewhere,)  
and Joe told him who I was and he laid himself out to make our course  
plain, for us--so I am certain we can't get lost between here and  
Heidelberg.  
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