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car of [[underlined]] "Metropa" [[/underlined]] which is a [[underlined]] German sleeping car [[/underlined]] Co competing with Wagon-lits Co 
The [[underlined]] cars are not so showy [[/underlined]] but everything is [[underlined]] immaculately clean and very intelligently arranged [[/underlined]]
[[strikethrough]] Excellent [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Sept 16. [[/underlined]] Excellent night sleep. Well tilled, prosperous looking lands. One does [[underlined]] not see or hear anything to remind of the war and country (am now in Baden) looks prosperous notwithstanding all the jeremiading of some German propaganda against the Dawes [[/underlined]] plan etc. Sleeping car does not go further than [[underlined]] Wurzburg [[/underlined]] so I am compelled to change to an extremely [[underlined]] worn and dirty red plushed 1st class compartment car (Austrian) [[/underlined]] which does service between [[underlined]] Ostend and Vienna. [[/underlined]] The [[underlined]] smell of the nearby W.C is next to unbearable [[/underlined]]
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[[underlined]] logs floated down stream similarly [[/underlined]] as in U.S The sight of [[underlined]] grape vines and Indian Corn fields is welcome. In Bavaria [[/underlined]] notice big oxen drawing ploughs and carts
At [[underlined]] Passau pretty part of Danube [[/underlined]] begins. Very casual visit of [[underlined]] Custom house, [[/underlined]] same as in Germany or Holland. [[underlined]] First class passengers are not much bothered, but third class are examined [[/underlined]] minutiously. Pretty landscape. We follow the shore of the [[underlined]] river Inn, [[/underlined]] a branch of the Danube. Swift grayish river. [[underlined]] Well cultivated lands everywhere [[/underlined]] high hills in distance. [[underlined]] Many [[/underlined]] male and female [[underlined]] tourists on walking tour, hobnail soled shoes, bare knees and tyrolean hats. 
Lenz. The coarse bull headed German men and women [[/underlined]] are [[underlined]] slowly giving way [[/underlined]] to

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"jeremiad" is a prolonged mournful complaint.