A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN
BY W. D. HOWELLS
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1893
Tourists at Montreux.
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
"They helped to make the hay in the marshes"
The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN
First Paper
Sign of the White Cross Inn
I
Out of eighty or ninety days that we passed in Switzerland there musthave been at least ten that were fair, not counting the forenoons beforeit began to rain, and the afternoons when it cleared up. They said thatit was an unusually rainy autumn, and we could well believe it; yet Isuspect that it rains a good deal in that little corner of the CantonVaud even when the autumn is only usually rainy. We arrived late inSeptember and came away early in December, and during that time we hadneither the fevers that raged in France nor the floods that raged inItaly. We Vaudois were rather proud of that, but whether we had muchelse to be proud of I am not so certain. Of course we had our Alpinescenery, and when the day was fair the sun came loafing up over theeastern mountains about ten o'clock in the morning, and lounged downbehind the western tops about half-past thre