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<p> We had traversed the Great Aletsch Glacier, and were very hungry when we reached the mountain tarn half-way between the [[Bel]] Alp and the hotel at the foot of the AEggischorn; there a peasant undertook to descend the mountain, and bring us bread and milk. It was a very [[Marah]] to us when he brought us back milk too sour for us to drink, and bread black as a coal, too hard to bite, and sour as the curds. What then? Why, we longed the more eagerly to reach the hotel towards which we were travelling. We mounted our horses, and made no more halts till we reached the hospitable table where our hunger was abundantly satisfied. Thus our disappointments on the road to heaven whet our appetites for the better country, and quicken the pace of our pilgrimage to the celestial city. </p>

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