As the greater part of the contents can be of no interest to us, I shall confine myself to picking up what seems to me worth preserving.

He had been drinking whey and the waters for a fortnight and found he was getting somewhat stouter and at the same time lazy.

People said he began to look better.

He enjoyed the sight of the valleys from the hills which surround Reinerz, but the climbing fatigued him, and he had sometimes to drag himself down on all-fours.

One mountain, the rocky Heuscheuer, he and other delicate persons were forbidden to ascend, as the doctor was afraid that the sharp air at the top would do his patients harm.