[A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookA Tramp Abroad CHAPTER XXIV 1/13
[I Protect the Empress of Germany] That was a thoroughly satisfactory walk--and the only one we were ever to have which was all the way downhill.
We took the train next morning and returned to Baden-Baden through fearful fogs of dust.
Every seat was crowded, too; for it was Sunday, and consequently everybody was taking a "pleasure" excursion.
Hot! the sky was an oven--and a sound one, too, with no cracks in it to let in any air.
An odd time for a pleasure excursion, certainly! Sunday is the great day on the continent--the free day, the happy day. One can break the Sabbath in a hundred ways without committing any sin. We do not work on Sunday, because the commandment forbids it; the Germans do not work on Sunday, because the commandment forbids it.
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