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can on the train said it looked to her as if some very orderly person had just been over the country cleaning it all up.  That expresses it--only I guess they [[underlined]] keep [[/underlined]] clean, and they don't throw things on the street.  At Basle there was a transfer to another depot and a wait of about 2 hours, part of which time I spent consuming an enormous dinner--then had nothing more till breakfast at Fraulein Schneider's this morning about 9:30.  At table with me at Basle (outdoors, as seems to be the custom everywhere in Europe) was an English woman.  She asked if I wasn't from the "Stites," (my speech bewrayeth me).  Asking where I had been, what I was doing, etc. (asking questions is not exclusively a Yankee characteristic) I told her of the suffering in Vienna.  "I'm jolly glad of it," she said, and proceeded like a 100% patrioteer the world over.  She had the rest of the conversation to herself, also her smokes, though she offered me one.----The German train was also clean, and it had a conductor.  It was the first journey since the first from Paris on the Orient Express, where the train seemed to have some management.  I was second class--it is so clean, I could have taken 3rd both in Switzerland and Germany.  We got to Stuttgart just about dark, after 9 o'clock.  The journey up the Rhine valley was beautiful.  I saw a stork striding through a field and before I recovered from my amazement saw another standing over her nest poking in it with her bill, the nest on the ridge pole of a red tiled roof.  It seemed like a German fairystory picture.  I could not see anything of Heidelburg, the train seemed to run in and back out again, and it was getting dark, too.  About midnight the conductor spouted a lot of German into the compartment where four of us were half asleep.  I automatically handed out my ticket, but that wasn't it.  There was another compartment ganz leer and if one of the Damen would mitkommen sie schlafen können und die andere Dama auch