Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands. The Rhine to the Arctic. A Summer Trip of the Zig-Zag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Butterworth Hezekiah. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands. The Rhine to the Arctic. A Summer Trip of the Zig-Zag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE RIVER OF STORY AND SONG
CHAPTER II. GHOST STORIES
CHAPTER III. A STORY-TELLING JOURNEY
CHAPTER IV. GERMAN STORIES
CHAPTER V. THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CLUB
CHAPTER VI. NIGHT SECOND
CHAPTER VII. EVENING THE THIRD
CHAPTER VIII. EVENING THE FOURTH
CHAPTER IX. FIFTH MEETING FOR RHINE STORIES
CHAPTER X. NIGHT THE SIXTH
CHAPTER XI. COLOGNE
CHAPTER XII. HAMBURG
CHAPTER XIII. THE BELLS OF THE RHINE
CHAPTER XIV. THE SONGS OF THE RHINE
CHAPTER XV. COPENHAGEN
CHAPTER XVI. NORWAY
CHAPTER XVII. THE GREATER RHINE
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THE Rhine! River of what histories, tragedies, comedies, legends, stories, and songs! Associated with the greatest events of the history of Germany, France, and Northern Europe; with the Rome of Cæsar and Aurelian; with the Rome of the Popes; with the Reformation; with the shadowy goblin lore and beautiful fairy tales of the twilight of Celtic civilization that have been evolved through centuries and have become the household stories of all enlightened lands!
A journey down the Rhine is like passing through wonderland; wild stories, quaint stories, legendary and historic stories, are associated with every rood of ground from the Alps to the ocean. It is a region of the stories of two thousand years. The Rhine is the river of the poet; its banks are the battle-fields of heroes; its forests and villages the fairy lands of old.
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“That?” said grandfather. “Mercy! that was Jemmy Robbin.”
We listened nervously, but heard nothing more, and at last concluded that it was the wind that had startled us. I gave grandfather a generous kiss, and it calmed his agitation wonderfully.
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