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SKETCHES. 313
or for you, more than for the man in the moon, and some-
times still Jess. =
Tt is in the miniature copies of the world’s large posting-
house, where the truth of this sad sketch is forced upon
your experience with glaring colors; and in order to illus-
trate this, I will here tell, especially for the benefit of those
who have never been at an hotel or a road-side inn, how,
one fine day, towards the close of September, two hand-
some carriages, containing a mother with her three daugh-
ters, son, and a nephew with moustaches, stopped at the
door of the hotel at the Falls of Trollhattan ; how these
travellers, after having ordered supper and lodgings for the
night, proceeded, as it becomes civilized people eager for
enlightenment, to see the locks, while they philosophized
over man’s genius to create water where formerly stood
mountains ; and how they, thereupon, during all kinds of
pleasant chat, went to view the roaring waterfalls, in order
to fall, as becomes thinking people, into deep meditations
at the wonders of Nature; and how at the the Gullé cata-
ract,in one of the daughters, who, besides very round cheeks
had also been gifted with a poetical vein, all kinds of
thoughts arose, bedewed with the misty spray of the water-
fall, but from which thoughts she hoped that one day the
mist might roll away, so as to discover some outlines of cer-
tain “ Sketches.”
It is further worth remarking, how the cousin with the
moustaches not only fell into a deep reverie on the Tappé
cataract, but was on the point of falling into it himself, and
how thereupon the whole company walked back’ to the
hotel, installed themselves in apartments No. 6 and 7 and
8 and 9 and 10, drank tea and ate sandwiches, amidst the
sound of merry laughter and pleasant chat.
From another quarter two Englishmen, returning from a
shooting excursion, thoroughly soaked and bespattered all
over, but in “high spirits,” let off their fowling-pieces at
the hotel door, and took possession, with a vast deal of noise
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