I should mention that Rucker went up to the castle and found his pocket-
book with all the money. "For not only doth Fortune favour the bold," as
is written in my great unpublished romance of "Flaxius the Immortal,"
"but, while her hand is in, also helps their friends with no unsparing
measure, as is marvellously confirmed by Machiavelli."

Vacation came. My friends scattered far and wide. I joined with three
German friends and one Frenchman, and we strapped on our knapsacks for a
foot-journey into Switzerland. First we went to Freiburg in Baden, and
saw the old Cathedral, and so on, singing, and stopping to drink, and
meeting with other students from other universities, and resting in
forests, amid mountains, by roaring streams, and entering cottages and
chatting with girls. _Hurra_! _frei ist der bursch_!

One afternoon we walked sixteen miles through a rain which was like a
waterfall. I was so drenched that it was with difficulty I kept my
passport and letter of exchange from being ruined. When we came out of
the storm there were _six_ of us! Another student had, unseen, joined
our party in the rain, and I had never noticed it!

We came to a tavern at the foot of the Rigiberg. My pack was soaked. One
friend lent me a shirt, another a pair of drawers, and we wrapped
ourselves in sheets from the beds and called for brandy and water hot--a
pleasing novelty to the Germans--and so went to bed. The next day we
ascended the Rigi; found many students there; did not see the sun rise in
the morning, but still a mighty panorama, wondrous fair, and so walked
down again. And receiving my carpet-bag at Lucerne, whither I had had
the precaution to send one, I dressed myself again in clean linen and
went back to Germany. I meant to travel more in Switzerland, but it was
very rainy that year, and, as it proved, I did wisely.

I returned to Spitz, but his house was full of English, and he informed
me, rather exultantly and foolishly, that he had no room for me, and
could not tell me where to go, "every place was full." As I had spent
money freely with him I did not like it. The head-waiter followed me out
and recommended the Black Eagle, kept by Herr Lehr. There I went, got a
good room, and for months after dined daily at its _table-d'hote_. I
sent friends there, and returned to the house with my wife twenty years
later. My brother also went there long after, and endeared himself to
all, helping Herr Lehr to pla