A Tramp Abroad

by Twain, Mark

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• ISBN10: 0486424456
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• Copyright: 2003-01-20
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Summary

The success of Twain's first collection of travel memoirs,The Innocents Abroad,inspired a return to Europe for another look at some of the countries and landmarks that initially dazzled the author and his companions. InA Tramp Abroad,Twain's abundant humor waxes as freely as ever; this time, however, his amusement bears a more cynical cast, as he regards the grand tourist sights in Innocents through older and more experienced eyes. The seriousness of the author's second impressions provides an interesting subtext to the overall jocularity of his narrative, making this volume a milestone in the Twain oeuvre and a must for his legions of admirers. Appendix.

Table of Contents

Chapter I	1	(3)
A Tramp over Europe
On the Holsatia
Hamburg
Frankfort-on-the-Main
How it Won its Name
A Lesson in Political Economy
Neatness in Dress
Rhine Legends
``The Knave of Bergen''
The Famous Ball
The Strange Knight
Dancing with the Queen
Removal of the Masks
The Disclosure
Wrath of the Emperor
The Ending
Chapter II	4	(6)
At Heidelberg
Great Stir at a Hotel
The Portier
Arrival of the Empress
The Schloss Hotel
Location of Heidelberg
The River Neckar
New Feature in a Hotel
Heidelberg Castle
View from the Hotel
A Tramp in the Woods
Meeting a Raven
Can Raven
Can Ravens Talk?
Laughed at and Vanquished
Language of Animals
Jim Baker
Blue-Jays
Chapter III	10	(2)
Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn
Jay Language
The Cabin
``Hello, I reckon I've struck something''
A Knot Hole ---Attempt to fill it
A Ton of Acorns
Friends Called In
A Great Mystery
More Jays Called
A Blue Flush
A Discovery
A Rich Joke
One that Couldn't See It
Chapter IV	12	(4)
Student Life
The Five Corps
The Beer King
A Free Life
Attending Lectures
An Immense Audience
Industrious Students
Politeness of the Students
Intercourse with the Professors
Scenes at the Castle Garden
Abundance of Dogs
Symbol of Blighted Love
How the Ladies Advertise
Chapter V	16	(3)
The Students' Dueling Ground
The Dueling Room
The Sword Grinder
Frequency of the Duels
The Duelists
Protection against Injury
The Surgeon
Arrangements for the Duels
The First Duel
The First Wound
A Drawn Battle
The Second Duel
Cutting and Slashing
Interference of the Surgeon
Chapter VI	19	(3)
The Third Duel
A Sickening Spectacle
Dinner between Fights
The Last Duel
Fighting in Earnest
Faces and Heads Mutilated
Great Nerve of the Duelists
Fatal Results not Unfrequent
The World's View of these Fights
Chapter VII	22	(4)
Corps-laws and Usages
Volunteering to Fight
Coolness of the Wounded
Wounds Honorable
Newly bandaged Students around Heidelberg
Scarred Faces Abundant
A Badge of Honor
Prince Bismark as a Duelist
Statistics
Constant Sword Practice
Color of the Corps
Corps Etiquette
Chapter VIII	26	(7)
The Great French Duel
Mistaken Notions
Outbreak in the French Assembly
Calmness of M. Gambetta
I Volunteer as Second
Drawing up a Will
The Challenge and its Acceptance
Difficulty in Selection of Weapons
Deciding on Distance
M. Gambetta's Firmness
Arranging Details
Hiring Hearses
How it was Kept from the Press
March to the Field
The Post of Danger
The Duel
The Result
General Rejoicings
The only One Hurt
A Firm Resolution
Chapter IX	33	(3)
At the Theatre
German Ideal
At the Opera
The Orchestra
Howlings and Wailings
A Curious Play
One Season of Rest
The Wedding Chorus
Germans fond of the Opera
Funerals Needed
A Private Party
What I Overheard
A Gentle Girl
A Contribution-box
Unpleasantly Conspicuous
Chapter X	36	(6)
Four Hours with Wagner
A Wonderful Singer, Once
``Only a Shriek''
An Ancient Vocalist
``He Only Cry''
Emotional Germans
A Wise Custom
Late Comers Rebuked
Heard to the Last
No Interruptions Allowed
A Royal Audience
An Eccentric King
Real Rain and More of It
Immense Success
``Encore! Encore!''
Magnanimity of the King
Chapter XI	42	(4)
Lessons in Art
My Great Picture of Heidelberg Castle
Its Effect in the Exhibition
Mistaken for a Turner
A Studio
Waiting for Orders
A Tramp Decided On
The Start for Heilbronn
Our Walking Dress
``Pleasant march to you''
We Take the Rail
German People on Board
Not Understood
Speak only German and English
Wimpfen
A Funny Tower
Dinner in the Garden
Vigorous Tramping
Ride in a Peasant's Cart
A Famous Room
Chapter XII	46	(3)
The Rathhaus
An Old Robber Knight, Gotz Von Berlichingen
His Famous Deeds
The Square Tower
A Curious old Church
A Gay Turn-out
A Legend
The Wives' Treasures
A Model Waiter
A Miracle Performed
An Old Town
The Worn Stones
Chapter XIII	49	(4)
Early to Bed
Lonesome
Nervous Excitement
The Room We Occupied
Disturbed by a Mouse
Grow Desperate
The old Remedy
A Shoe Thrown
Result
Hopelessly Awake
An Attempt to Dress
A Cruise in the Dark
Crawling on the Floor
A General Smash-up
Forty-seven Miles' Travel
Chapter XIV	53	(3)
A Famous Turn-out
Raftsmen on the Neckar
The Log Rafts
The Neckar
A Sudden Idea
To Heidelberg on a Raft
Chartering a Raft
Gloomy Feelings and Conversation
Delicious Journeying
View of the Banks
Compared with Railroading
Chapter XV	56	(6)
Down the River
German Women's Duties
Bathing as We Went
A Handsome Picture: Girls in the Willows
We Sight a Tug
Steamers on the Neckar
Dinner on Board
Legend ``Cave of the Spectre''
Lady Gertrude the Heiress
The Crusader
The Lady in the Cave
A Tragedy
Chapter XVI	62	(7)
An Ancient Legend of the Rhine
``The Lorelei''
Count Hermann
Falling in Love
A Sight of the Enchantress
Sad Effect on Count Hermann
An Evening visit
A Sad Mistake
Count Hermann Drowned
The Song and Music
Different Translations
Curiosities in Titles
Chapter XVII	69	(6)
Another Legend
The Unconquered Monster
The Unknown Knight
His Queer Shaped Knapsack
The Knight Pitied and Advised
He Attacks the Monster
Victory for the Fire Extinguisher
The Knight Rewarded
His Strange Request
Spectacles Made Popular
Danger to the Raft
Blasting Rocks
An Inglorious Death in View
Escaped
A Storm Overtakes us
Great Danger
Man Overboard
Breakers Ahead
Springing a Leak
Ashore Safe
A General Embracing
A Tramp in the Dark
The Naturalist Tavern
A Night's Troubles
``It is the Cat''
Chapter XVIII	75	(6)
Breakfast in a Garden
The Old Raven
Castle of Hirschhorn
Attempt to Hire a Boat
High Dutch
What You Can Find out by Enquiring
What I Found out about the Students
A good German Custom
Harris Practices It
An Embarrassing Position
A Nice Party
At a Ball
Stopped at the Door
Assistance at Hand and Rendered
Worthy to be an Empress
Chapter XIX	81	(7)
Arrive at Neckarsteinach
Castle of Dilsberg
A Walled Town
On a Hill
Exclusiveness of the People
A Queer Old Place
An Ancient Well
An Outlet Proved
Legend of Dilsberg Castle
The Haunted Chamber
The Betrothed's request
The Knight's Slumbers and Awakening
Horror of the Lover
The Wicked Jest
The Lover a Maniac
Under the Linden
Turning Pilot
Accident to the Raft
Fearful Disaster
Chapter XX	88	(6)
Good News
``Slow Freight''
Keramics
My Collection of Bric-a-brac
My Tear Jug
Henri II Plate
Specimen of Blue China
Indifference to the Laugh of the World
I Discover an Antique
En-route to Baden-Baden
Meeting an Old Acquaintance
A young American
Embryo Horse Doctor
An American, Sure
A Minister Captured
Chapter XXI	94	(7)
Baden-Baden
Energetic Girls
A Comprehensive Yawn
A Beggar's Trick
Cool Impudence
The Bath Woman
Insolence of Shop Keepers
Taking a Bath
Early and Late Hours
Popular Belief Regarding Indians
An Old Cemetery
A Pious Hag
Curious Table Companions
Chapter XXII	101	(7)
The Black Forest
A Grandee and his Family
The Wealthy Nabob
A New Standard of Wealth
Skeleton for a New Novel
Trying Situation
The Common Council
Choosing a New Member
Studying Natural History
The Ant a Fraud
Eccentricities of the Ant
His Deceit and Ignorance
A German Dish
Boiled Oranges
Chapter XXIII	108	(6)
Off for a Day's Tramp
Tramping and Talking
Story Telling
Dentistry in Camp
Nicodemus Dodge
Seeking a Situation
A Butt for Jokes
Jimmy Finn's Skeleton
Descending a Farm
Unexpected Notoriety
Chapter XXIV	114	(4)
Sunday on the Continent
A Day of Rest
An Incident at Church
An Object of Sympathy
Royalty at Church
Public Grounds Concert
Power and Grades of Music
Hiring a Courier
Chapter XXV	118	(9)
Lucerne
Beauty of its Lake
The Wild Chamois
A Great Error Exposed
Methods of Hunting the Chamois
Beauties of Lucerne
The Alpenstock
Marketing Alpenstocks
Guessing at Nationalities
An American Party
An Unexpected Acquaintance
Getting Mixed Up
Following Blind Trails
A Happy Half-hour
Defeat and Revenge
Chapter XXVI	127	(7)
Commerce of Lucerne
Benefits of Martyrdom
A Bit of History
The Home of Cuckoo Clocks
A Satisfactory Revenge
The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's
A Forgotten Story
Wanted to be Postmaster
A Tennessean at Washington
He Concluded to Stay a While
Application of the Story
Chapter XXVII	134	(7)
The Glacier Garden
Excursion on the Lake
Life on the Mountains
A Specimen Tourist
``Where're you From?''
An Advertising Dodge
A Righteous Verdict
The Guide-book Student
``I Believe that's All''
Chapter XXVIII	141	(8)
The Rigi-Kulm
Its Ascent
Stripping for Business
A Mountain Lad
An English Tourist
Rail-road up the Mountain
Villages and Mountain
The Jodlers
About Ice Water
The Felsenthor
Too Late
Lost in the Fog
The Rigi-Kulm Hotel
The Alpine Horn
Sunrise at Night
Chapter XXIX	149	(3)
Everything Convenient
Looking for a Western Sunrise
Mutual Recrimination
View from the Summit
Down the Mountain
Railroading
Confidence Wanted and Acquired
Chapter XXX	152	(7)
A Trip by Proxy
A Visit to the Furka Regions
Deadman's Lake
Source of the Rhone
Glacier Tables
Storm in the Mountains
At Grindelwald
Dawn on the Mountains
An Explanation Required
Dead Language
Criticism of Harris's Report
Chapter XXXI	159	(8)
Preparations for a Tramp
From Lucerne to Interlaken
The Brunig Pass
Modern and Ancient Chalets
Death of Pontius Pilate
Hermit Home of St. Nicholas
Landslides
Children Selling Refreshments
How they Harness a Horse
A Great Man
Honors to a Hero
A Thirsty Bride
For Better or Worse
German Fashions
Anticipations
Solid Comfort
An Unsatisfactory Awakening
What we had Lost
Our Surroundings
Chapter XXXII	167	(6)
The Jungfrau Hotel
A Whiskered Waitress
An Arkansas Bride
Perfection in Discord
A Famous Victory
A Look from a Window
About the Jungfrau
Chapter XXXIII	173	(5)
The Giesbach Falls
The Spirit of the Alps
Why People Visit Them
Whey and Grapes as Medicines
The Kursaal
A Formidable Undertaking
From Interlaken to Zermatt on Foot
We Concluded to take a Buggy
A Pair of Jolly Drivers
We meet with Companions
A Cheerful Ride
Kandersteg Valley
An Alpine Parlor
Exercise and Amusement
A Race with a Log
Chapter XXXIV	178	(7)
An Old Guide
Possible Accidents
Dangerous Habitation
Mountain Flowers
Embryo Lions
Mountain Pigs
The End of the World
Ghastly Desolation
Proposed Adventure
Reading up Adventures
Ascent of Monte Rosa
Precipices and Crevasses
Among the Snows
Exciting Experiences
Ice Ridges
The Summit
Adventures Postponed
Chapter XXXV	185	(8)
A New Interest
Magnificent Views
A Mule's Preferences
Turning Mountain Corners
Terror of a Horse
Lady Tourists
Death of a young Countess
A Search for a Hat
What We Did Find
Harris's Opinion of Chamois
A Disappointed Man
A Giantess
Model for an Empress
Baths at Leuk
Sport in the Water
The Gemmi Precipices
A Place for an Emperor
The Famous Ladders
Considerably Mixed Up
Sad Plight of a Minister
Chapter XXXVI	193	(8)
Sunday Church Bells
A Cause of Profanity
A Magnificent Glacier
Fault Finding by Harris
Almost an Accident
Selfishness of Harris
Approaching Zermatt
The Matterhorn
Zermatt
Home of Mountain Climbers
Fitted out for Climbing
A Fearful Adventure
Never Satisfied
Chapter XXXVII	201	(8)
A Calm Decision
``I Will Ascend the Riffelberg''
Preparations for the Trip
All Zermatt on the Alert
Schedule of Persons and Things
An Unprecedented Display
A General Turn-out
Ready for a Start
The Post of Danger
The Advance Directed
Grand Display of Umbrellas
The First Camp
Almost a Panic
Supposed to be Lost
The First Accident
A Chaplain Disabled
An Experimenting Mule
Good Effects of a Blunder
Badly Lost
A Reconnoiter
Mystery and Doubt
Stern Measures Taken
A Black Ram
Saved by a Miracle
The Guide's Guide
Chapter XXXVIII	209	(9)
Our Expedition Continued
Experiments with the Barometer
Boiling Thermometer
Barometer Soup
An Interesting Scientific Discovery
Crippling a Latinist
A Chaplain Injured
Short of Barkeepers
Digging a Mountain Cellar
A Young American Specimen
Somebody's Grandson
Arrival at Riffelberg Hotel
Ascent of Gorner Grat
Faith in Thermometers
The Matterhorn
Chapter XXXIX	218	(5)
Guide Books
Plans for the Return of the Expedition
A Glacier Train
Parachute Descent from Gorner Grat
Proposed Honors to Harris Declined
All had an Excuse
A Magnificent Idea Abandoned
Descent to the Glacier
A Supposed Leak
A Slow Train
The Glacier Abandoned
Journey to Zermatt
A Scientific Question
Chapter XL	223	(7)
Glaciers
Glacier Perils
Moraines
Terminal Moraines
Lateral Moraines
Immense Size of Glacier
Traveling Glacier
General Movements of Glaciers
Ascent of Mont Blanc
Loss of Guides
Finding of Remains
Meeting of Old Friends
The Dead and Living
Proposed Museum
The Relics at Chamonix
Chapter XLI	230	(3)
The Matterhorn Catastrophe of 1865
Mr. Whymper's Narrative
Ascent of the Matterhorn
The Summit
The Matterhorn Conquered
The Descent Commenced
A Fearful Disaster
Death of Lord Douglas and Two Others
The Graves of the Two
Chapter XLII	233	(7)
Switzerland
Graveyard at Zermatt
Balloting for Marriage
Farmers as Heroes
Falling off a Farm
From St. Nicholas to Visp
Dangerous Traveling
Children's Play
The Parson's Children
A Landlord's Daughter
A Rare Combination
Chillon
Lost Sympathy
Mont Blanc and its Neighbors
Beauty of Soap Bubbles
A Wild Drive
The King of Drivers
Benefit of getting Drunk
Chapter XLIII	240	(6)
Chamonix
Contrasts
Magnificent Spectacle
The Guild of Guides
The Guide-in-Chief
The Return Tourist
Getting Diploma
Rigid Rules
Unsuccessful Efforts to Procure a Diploma
The Record Book
The Conqueror of Mont Blanc
Professional Jealousy
Triumph of Truth
Mountain Music
Its Effect
A Hunt for a Nuisance
Chapter XLIV	246	(6)
Looking at Mont Blanc
Telescopic Effect
A Proposed Trip
Determination and Courage
The Cost all counted
Ascent of Mont Blanc by Telescope
Safe and Rapid Return
Diplomas Asked for and Refused
Disaster of 1866
The Brave Brothers
Wonderful Endurance and Pluck
Love Making on Mont Blanc
First Ascent of a Woman
Sensible Attire
Chapter XLV	252	(2)
A Catastrophe which Cost Eleven Lives
Accident of 1870
A Party of Eleven
A Fearful Storm
Note-books of the Victims
Within Five Minutes of Safety
Facing Death Resignedly
Chapter XLVI	254	(5)
The Hotel des Pyramids
The Glacier des Bossons
One of the Shows
Premeditated Crime
Saved Again
Tourists Warned
Advice to Tourists
The Two Empresses
The Glacier Toll Collector
Pure Ice Water
Death Rate of the World
Of Various Cities
A Pleasure Excursionist
A Diligence Ride
A Satisfied Englishman
Chapter XLVII	259	(7)
Geneva
Shops of Geneva
Elasticity of Prices
Persistency of Shop Women
The High Pressure System
How a Dandy was brought to Grief
American Manners
Gallantry
Col. Baker of London
Arkansaw Justice ---Safety of Women in America
Town of Chambery
A Lively Place
At Turin
A Railroad Companion
An Insulated Woman
City of Turin
Italian Honesty
A Small Mistake
Robbing a Beggar Woman
Chapter XLVIII	266	(7)
In Milan
The Arcade
Incidents we Met With
The Pedlar
Children
The Honest Conductor
Heavy Stocks of Clothing
The Quarrelsome Italians
Great Smoke and Little Fire
The Cathedral
Style in Church
The Old Masters
Tintoretto's great Picture
Emotional Tourists
Basson's Famed Picture
The Hair Trunk
Chapter XLIX	273	(7)
In Venice
St. Mark's Cathedral
Discovery of an Antique
The Riches of St. Mark's
A Church Robber
Trusting Secrets to a Friend
The Robber Hanged
A Private Dinner
European Food
Chapter L	280	(38)
Why Some things Are
Art in Rome and Florence
The Fig Leaf Mania
Titian's Venus
Difference between Seeing and Describing
A Real work of Art
Titian's Moses
Home
APPENDIX
A.-- The Portier analyzed	285	(4)
B.-- Heidelberg Castle Described	289	(5)
C.-- The College Prison and Inmates	294	(5)
D.-- The Awful German Language	299	(14)
E.-- Legends of the Castle	313	(5)
F.-- The Journals of Germany	318