And, if you know your alphabet,
At once you find the last [Z].”
It is rarely indeed that the entries made in visitors’ books—shrines in which inky offerings to the belly-gods are mostly inscribed—are quite as happy as this.
FOOTNOTES:
[6] “The Lay of the Nibelungs.” Metrically translated from the old German text by Alice Horton, and edited by Edward Bell, M.A., 1898.
[7] Planché journeyed down the Danube in 1827; three years later the first of his “monstrous anachronisms” was plying on it!
CHAPTER V
LINZ TO THE WACHAU
“... the Strudel and the Wirbel form
Dangers more fierce than devastating storm,
Where the great waters with tumultuous roar,