Part 16 (1/2)

”The maiden has one request to make”

”She shall have her request”

So the dean was released and went back to Strasburg Thecount, but what became of the hen the chroniclers do not tell

But the trench re to make the evidence of the story sure is to connect the hen with the trench, after four hundred years This ists make connections in like cases after the lapse of a thousand years Do they not?

CHAPTER VII

EVENING THE THIRD

STRASBURG--A MEMORABLE CHRISTMAS--THE STORY OF THE LOST ORGANIST

Our third night upon the Rhine was spent at Strasburg

”The cathedral is the wonder of the city The excursionist thinks of but little else during his stay there Wherever he antic church is always in view He beholds it towering over all

”Its history is that of Gerreith the German empire, and has shared all its triumphs and reverses It was founded by Clovis It has been i some fifty times, and has as often repelled the shocks of war In the tenth century it was burned; in the eleventh, plundered; and five years after it was nearly de

”It was after the last calaun

At one time a _hundred thousand_ men were employed upon it: can onder that it is colossal?

”The giant grew In 1140, 1150, and 1176 it was partly burned, but it rose froreat, lofty, and splendid

[Illustration: STRASBURG CATHEDRAL]

”Indulgences were offered to donors and workht they earned, their salvation by adding their nificence In 1303 it is said that all the peasants of Alsacefor the cathedral Master builder succeeded reat ent on In the French Revolution the Jacobins tore from the cathedral the statues of two hundred and thirty saints; but it was still a city of saints in stone and marble

In 1870, in the Franco-Prussian war, its roof was perforated with shells, and on the 25th of August it burst into flareat cathedral was destroyed But it stands to-day,the sky

[Illustration: PLATFORM OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL]

”We visited the cathedral in the afternoon We were at once filled onder at the s They burned with color, and see in air amid the shadows of the lofty walls They represented scriptural subjects

”I was standing in awe, gazing upon a gorgeous circularthat seemed to blaze in the air like a planet, when Charlie touched my aro up and see the fixings, and how it is all done?'

”'I a of that _toy_,' said I; 'you stand in a monument of art that it has taken a thousand years to build'

”'Yes; I hope we shall be here to-morrohen the Twelve Apostles come out and the cock crows _at_ Peter'”

A MEMORABLE CHRISTMAS