Little RudyWE will pay a visit to Switzerland, and wander through
that country of mountains, whose steep and rocky sides are
overgrown with forest trees. Let us climb to the dazzling
snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green
meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if
they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish. Fiercely
shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy
masses of snow which lie on the mountains.
During the year these accumulations thaw or fall in the
rolling avalance, or are piled up in shining glaciers. Two of these
glaciers lie in the broad, rocky cliffs, between the Schreckhorn
and the Wetterhorn, near the little town of Grindelwald. They are
wonderful to behold, and therefore in the summer
