CHAPTER XI.

The Hausknecht -- A Place to Lose Yourself -- Street-Phenomena -- Book-shops -- Glass-wares -- Cavernous Beer-houses -- Signs -- Czechish Names -- Ugly Women -- Swarms of Soldiers -- A Scene on the Bridge -- A Drateñik -- The Ugly Passport Clerk -- The Suspension-bridge -- The Islands -- The Slopes of the Laurenzberg -- View over Prague -- Schools, Palaces, and Poverty -- The Rookery -- The Hradschin -- The Courts -- The Cathedral -- The Great Tomb -- The Silver Shrine -- Relics -- A Kissed Portrait -- St. Wenzel's Chapel -- Big Sigmund -- The Loretto Platz -- The Old Towers -- The Hill-top and Hill-foot 118