A Tramp Abroad

Contents

1. The Knighted Knave of Bergen
2. Heidelberg
   Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg
3. Baker's Bluejay Yarn
   What Stumped the Blue Jays
4. Student Life
   The Laborious Beer King
5. At the Students' Dueling-Ground
   Dueling by Wholesale
6. A Sport that Sometimes Kills
7. How Bismarck Fought
8. The Great French Duel
   I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel
9. What the Beautiful Maiden Said
10. How Wagner Operas Bang Along
11. I Paint a "Turner"
12. What the Wives Saved
13. My Long Crawl in the Dark
14. Rafting Down the Neckar
15. Down the River
    Charming Waterside Pictures
16. An Ancient Legend of the Rhine
    The Lorelei
17. Why Germans Wear Spectacles
18. The Kindly Courtesy of Germans
19. The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg
20. My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug
21. Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans
22. The Black Forest and Its Treasures
23. Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton
24. I Protect the Empress of Germany
25. Hunted by the Little Chamois
26. The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock
27. I Spare an Awful Bore
28. The Jodel and Its Native Wilds
29. Looking West for Sunrise
30. Harris Climbs Mountains for Me
31. Alp-scaling by Carriage
32. The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano
33. We Climb Far -- by Buggy
34. The World's Highest Pig Farm
35. Swindling the Coroner
36. The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing
37. Our Imposing Column Starts Upward
38. I Conquer the Gorner Grat
39. We Travel by Glacier
40. Piteous Relics at Chamonix
41. The Fearful Disaster of 1865
42. Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon
43. My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed
44. I Scale Mont Blanc -- by Telescope
45. A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives
    Perished at the Verge of Safety
46. Meeting a Hog on a Precipice
47. Queer European Manners
48. Beauty of Women -- and of Old Masters
49. Hanged with a Golden Rope
50. Titian Bad and Titian Good

Appendix

• A. The Portier
• B. Heidelberg Castle
• C. The College Prison
• D. The Awful German Language
• E. Legend of the Castles
• F. German Journals