The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

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Elizabeth von Arnim. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

THE FIRST DAY. FROM MILTZOW TO LAUTERBACH

THE SECOND DAY. LAUTERBACH AND VILM

THE THIRD DAY. FROM LAUTERBACH TO GÖHREN

THE FOURTH DAY. FROM GÖHREN TO THIESSOW

THE FOURTH DAY—Continued. AT THIESSOW

THE FIFTH DAY. FROM THIESSOW TO SELLIN

THE FIFTH DAY—Continued. FROM SELLIN TO BINZ

THE SIXTH DAY. THE JAGDSCHLOSS

THE SIXTH DAY—Continued. THE GRANITZ WOODS, SCHWARZER SEE, AND KIEKÖWER

THE SEVENTH DAY. FROM BINZ TO STUBBENKAMMER

THE SEVENTH DAY—Continued. AT STUBBENKAMMER

THE EIGHTH DAY. FROM STUBBENKAMMER TO GLOWE

THE NINTH DAY. FROM GLOWE TO WIEK

THE TENTH DAY. FROM WIEK TO HIDDENSEE

THE ELEVENTH DAY. FROM WIEK HOME

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Every one who has been to school and still remembers what he was taught there, knows that Rügen is the biggest island Germany possesses, and that it lies in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Pomerania.

Round this island I wished to walk this summer, but no one would walk with me. It is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. If you drive you are bound by a variety of considerations, eight of the most important being the horses' legs. If you bicycle—but who that loves to get close to nature would bicycle? And as for motors, the object of a journey like mine was not the getting to a place but the going there.

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It was indeed the tea-basket, shaken out as it naturally would be on the removal of the bodies that had kept it in its place, come to us like the ravens of old to give us strength and sustenance.

'It still contains food,' said Gertrud, hurrying towards it.

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