[Illustration: THE NOON ENCAMPMENT. [See Violin Village.]]




ST. NICHOLAS.

VOL. V.
OCTOBER, 1878.
No. 12.

[Copyright, 1878, by Scribner & Co.]




THE VIOLIN VILLAGE.

By Edith Hawkins.


On the borders of the Tyrol and the lovely district known as the
"Bavarian Highlands," there is a quaint little village called
"Mittenwald," which at first sight appears shut in by lofty mountains as
by some great and insurmountable barrier. The villagers are a simple,
industrious people, chiefly occupied in the manufacture of stringed
musical instruments, the drying of which, on fine days, presents a very
droll appearance. The gardens seem to have blossomed out in the most
eccentric manner; for there, dangling from lines like clothes, hang
zithers, guitars, and violins, by hundreds, from the big bass to the