[28] The bell called in other countries the Elevation bell, is in Germany called the Wandlung, or change-of-the-elements bell. The idiom was worth preserving here, as it depicts more perfectly the solemnity of the moment indicated.
[29] The threefold invocation, supposed to be supremely efficacious.
[30] In Tirol the roofs are frequently made of narrow overlapping planks, weighed down by large stones. Hence the origin of the German proverb, ‘If a stone fall from the roof, ten to one but it lights on a poor widow;’—equivalent to our ‘Trouble never comes alone.’
[31] ‘May God reward it.’
CHAPTER II.
NORTH-TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT-INN BANK).
KUFSTEIN TO ROTTENBURG.
... ‘Peasant of the Alps,
Thy humble virtues, hospitable home,