ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;

ents.-Student Songs.-The Story of Little Mo

circled with blue mountain-walls, and is full of balmy air and cheerful faces. The streets have an atmosphere of hospitality. Its

in 1386, and is the oldest in Germany. It made Heidelberg a student-town; ther

among its ruins. It is said that Michael Angelo designed it: we cannot tell. The names of the masters who upreared the pile of magnificence for centuries and peopled it wit

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us. The sunlight fell through the open doorways, and the swallow

hine, of stately dames, orange-gardens, and splendid festiva

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is said to hold two hundred and thirty-six thousand

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eliest valleys in Europe. The Neckar winds betwe

iversity is situated, and that several hundred Ger

iversity, and to observe the curious student customs of which I

e picturesque and hoary old college palaces of Oxford and Cambridge, or even with

nding. The lecture-rooms are on one side of the square; in the rear are the museum and reading room, while opposite the lecture-r

and there. You are at once struck with the contrast they present to American or English students

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hair is cropped close to his head, and on one side of the head, in jaunty fashion, he wears a small round cap,-too small by f

s college mates, he puffs away on a very curious long pipe, the bowl being of porcelain, on which is painted some fanciful scene, or perhaps a view of the grand old castle. Sometimes t

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not accustomed to him. This is a small, blear-eyed, bullet-headed, bloodthirsty-looking bull-dog, with red eyes and snarling mouth. Y

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of which some are called "Verbindungs," and others "Corps;" and the caps

devote themselves to "the glory of the Fatherland;" and t

ored ribbons across their breasts or hung to their watch-chains. There is a gre

ood times" they have in their "Verbindungs," in which they meet two nights in

led "Wolfsbrunnen," where they obtain trout fresh from a pond, and eat th

to the lovely Swetzingen gardens, or to the top of the Konigsthul hill, back of the castle, from which a mo

tudents are too poor to enjoy the pastimes of the others, or even to

the kindly disposed, with which to pay the expenses of their education. As you pass through Germany you frequent

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tinued the subject by some account of one o

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l European tongues. Their beauty of expression, and suggestive and evasive meanings, ha

t is said that on the appearance of his "Reisebilder" in 1826-31, "young Germany became intoxicated with enthusiasm.

hen he earnestly sought to know man's true relations to God. He sought the evidence of truth, however, m

hurch. Then he became a free-thinker. He studied various philosophies and s

ed him for many years to his chair. For seven years he was propped up by pillow

to hear that my health is drunk in cups of gold

hat religion is a matter of experience rather than philosophy, and that the h

about religion than I do now, and I must come to a knowle

cast aside all philosophical pride, and ha

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ing was "Little Mook," by Hauff, and a poetic a

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d Little Mook. He lived alone, and was thought to be rich. He had a

ason that ill-bred children there followed

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indly because he was deformed. The old man at last die

cheerful spirit, for the strange world w

an old house, into whose door a great number of cats were passing. "If the people here are so good to cats, they

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d the beldame; "but I pity your hard lot, and you may

ployed to look after

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ent abroad; and when she came home and found the house in confusion, and bowl

ed a secret room in which were magic articl

be held responsible for the accident, and he resolved to escape and try his fortune in the world again

say to them, "Go!" and they would impel him forward with

" said Little Mook, "and

o the palace in order

the messenger

the king's messenger,-you with yo

rial of speed with your swifte

old the king about the litt

he king. "Let him run a race with my fir

le Mook should try his speed

ittle flesh on his body. He walked with wonderful swiftness, looking like a windmill as

witness the race, and to see what the bumptious pygmy could do. Everybody w

the two to start, Little Mook allowed the runner to go ahead of him for a little time, but when the la

s waved her veil, and the people al

enger, and surpassed all the runners

de him bitter enemies, and at last the king himself came to believe the stor

he had left home and the house of the old woman. Just beyond the c

seen. He gathered some figs from one of them, but as he was eating them his nose and ears began to grow, and when

len from this tree, and ate it. Immediately his nose and ears became smaller and small

he first tree to the royal household, and then I will turn doctor, and give the donkeys

igs, and returned to the palace and sol

ses and ears were as long as their arms. The physicians were sent for and they held a consultation. They decided on amputation; but

ers the figs of the second tree, and they were cured. He collected his fees, and having relieved all but t

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