[The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock] The Hofkirche is celebrated for its organ concerts.

All summer long the tourists flock to that church about six o'clock in the evening, and pay their franc, and listen to the noise.

They don't stay to hear all of it, but get up and tramp out over the sounding stone floor, meeting late comers who tramp in in a sounding and vigorous way.

This tramping back and forth is kept up nearly all the time, and is accented by the continuous slamming of the door, and the coughing and barking and sneezing of the crowd.

Meantime, the big organ is booming and crashing and thundering away, doing its best to prove that it is the biggest and best organ in Europe, and that a tight little box of a church is the most favorable place to average and appreciate its powers in.