[The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hosts of the Air CHAPTER IX 26/40
The Kaiser will make a finish of it all in the spring, and I shall marry Minna.
We shall go into Munich, see the beautiful city, and then go back to our home in the village." "A fine place, Munich," said John.
"In my dealing in horses I've been there more than once.
Do you remember the Wittelsbach Fountain in the Maximilienplatz ?" "Aye, and a cooling sight it is on a warm day." "And the green Isar flowing through the Englischer Gardens!" "And the ducks swimming down to the edge of the little falls, swimming so close that you think they're going over and then swimming away again." "Yes, I've seen them, and once I went into the gallery and saw the strange pictures they called Futurist, which I think represent the bad dreams of painters who have gone to bed drunk." "You're a man of sense, you Castel, even if you do have a French name.
I went in there myself once, and then I hurried away to the Hofbrau and drank all the beer I could that I might forget it." John laughed, and Fritz laughed with him. "How far do you go ?" asked John. "Only to Stuttgart.
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