SCENE AMONG THE MARYLAND ALLEGHANIES.
SCENE AT CUMBERLAND NARROWS.
CLIFF VIEW, CUMBERLAND NARROWS.
VALLEY FALLS, WEST VIRGINIA.
FISH CREEK VALLEY, WEST VIRGINIA.
CHEAT RIVER VALLEY AND MOUNTAINS.
CHEAT RIVERS NARROWS.
SCHLOSS SCHWALBEN.




THE NEW HYPERION.

FROM PARIS TO MARLY BY WAY OF THE RHINE.

IV.--A DAY IN STRASBURG.


[Illustration: TEARING UP THE PONTOON BRIDGE.]

Behold me, then, with five hours around my neck, like so many
millstones, in Strasburg, on the abjured Rhine! Had I not vowed never
to visit that bewitched current again? Was it not by Rhine-bank that
I learned to quote the minnesingers and to unctuate my hair? From her
owl-tower did not old Frau Himmelauen use to observe me, my cane, and
my curls, and my gloves? Did not her gossips compare me to Wilhelm
Meister? And so, when he thought he was ripe, the innocent Paul
Flemming must needs proceed to pour his curls, his songs and his love
into the lap of Mary Ashburton; and the discreet siren responded, "You