Chapter I: Front Matter

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Our Little Swiss Cousin

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L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
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Our Little Swiss
Cousin

By
Mary Hazelton Wade

_Illustrated by_
L. J. Bridgman

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_MDCCCCIII_

_Copyright, 1903_

BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published, July, 1903
_Fourth Impression, December, 1906_

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

Preface

IN the very heart of Europe lies a small country nestling among the mountains. It is unlike any other in the world. Its people speak four different languages; they believe in different religions; the government is not alike in different parts; yet the Swiss states are bound together by a bond stronger than unity of language or creed can possibly make.

Our brave Swiss cousins believe in liberty for all and brotherly love. These make the most powerful of ties.

In their mountains and valleys they have fought against the enemies who would have destroyed them, and the tyrants who would have made them slaves. They have driven out their foes again and again, for their cause was noble and unselfish, and to-day the republic formed by them can teach other countries many wise and worthy lessons.

How the stories of William Tell and Arnold von Winkelried stir our hearts whenever we hear them repeated! These were only two of many heroes who have made the country famous for its bravery and unselfishness.

Surely we shall be glad to turn our minds for a while to its fertile valleys, beautiful lakes, and the noble mountains among which the good monks live with their trusty dogs, that they may give aid and comfort to unfortunate travellers overtaken by cold and storm.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I. CARL'S HOLIDAY 9
II. THE MOUNTAIN PASTURE 27
III. THE SCHOOLMASTER'S VISIT 43
IV. THE BRAVE ARCHER 51
V. THE HAYMAKERS 63
VI. THE MARMOT 76
VII. GLACIER AND AVALANCHE 92
VIII. SANTA CLAUS NIGHT 105
IX. THE WONDERFUL ABBEY 110

List of Illustrations

PAGE
CARL _Frontispiece_
THE CHALET 30
"'FOLLOWING ITS MASTER ABOUT JUST LIKE A DOG'" 49
CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN 79
"IT WAS A RIVER OF SOLID ICE!" 95
ON THE LAKE 121

Our Little Swiss Cousin