The landlord said he thought it must soon be over, for he doubted whether they could last much longer; but their powers of endurance were greater than he had supposed.

It will readily be imagined that German songs with a good chorus, the solo parts being very short, and received with the utmost impatience by the chorus, were even less soporific in their effect than the flirtations--though boisterous beyond all conventional propriety--of German housemaids and waiters.[65] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 55: See p.

258.] [Footnote 56: Acta SS.Bolland.May 9 .-- If possessed of the characteristics of his race--'tall and proud'-- his activity belies the first line of the old saying, 'Lang and lazy, Little and loud; Red and foolish, Black and proud:' though possibly the personal habits which a modern spirit loves to point out, as the great essential of hermit-life, united with the family characteristic of the early Seton to verify the last line of the saying.] [Footnote 57: _Bibl.Univ.de Geneve_, First Series, xxi.113.See also _Edinburgh Philosophical Journal_, viii.

290.] [Footnote 58: _Philosophical Magazine_, Aug.

1829.] [Footnote 59: Colonel Dufour guessed the elevation of the cave, in 1822, at two-thirds the height of the Niesen, and forty years after, as General Dufour, he published the result of the scientific survey of Switzerland, which makes it 1,780 metres; so that his early guess was not a bad one.] [Footnote 60: There is a hint of something of this kind in an editorial note in the _Journal des Mines_ (now _Annales des Mines_) of Prairial, an.iv.pp.71, 72, in connection with the glaciere near Besancon.] [Footnote 61: M.Soret, who visited the Schafloch in September 1860, and communicated his notes to M.Thury, speaks of many columns in this part of the glaciere, where we found only two.