[91] A wayside cross under a little penthouse, such as is to be met at every turn of the road in Tirol.
[92] The south wind, which does much mischief at certain times of the year, and is most dreaded in Vorarlberg.
[93] Dialectic for a basket in Vorarlberg.
[94] It has been my aim generally, in making this collection, to give the preference to those stories which have a moral point to recommend them; my readers will not, perhaps, take it amiss, however, if I present them with this specimen of a class in which this is wanting, and which aims only at amusement. It is, moreover, interesting from the strong evidence it bears of extremely remote origin; for the light way in which putting people to death, deception, and selfishness are spoken of prove it has a pre-Christian source, while the unimportant accessories show how details get modified by transmission.
[95] It must be understood that it is an outside staircase that is here alluded to, and the shutter of an unglazed window on its landing serving for a door also.
[96] In a lordly manner.
[97] A cluster of houses too small to be designated a village.
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE, LONDON.