four o'clock in the
morning
Cruelty to animal or child is a thing almost unknown in the land . The whip with them is a musical instrument ; its crack is heard from morning to night , but an Italian coachman that in the streets of Dresden I once saw use it was very nearly lynched by the indignant crowd . Germany is the only country in Europe where the traveller can settle himself comfortably in his hired carriage , confident that his gentle , willing friend between the shafts will be neither over-worked nor cruelly treated . Black Forest House : and the sociability therein -- Its perfume -- George positively declines to remain in bed after four o'clock in the morning -- The road one can not miss -- My peculiar extra instinct -- An ungrateful party -- Harris as a scientist -- His cheery confidence -- The village : where it was , and where it ought to have been -- George : his plan -- We promenade a la Francais -- The German coachman asleep and awake -- The man who spreads the English language abroad . There was one night when , tired out and far from town or village , we slept in a Black Forest farmhouse . The great charm about the Black Forest house is its sociability . The cows are in the next room , the horses are upstairs , the geese and ducks are in the kitchen , while the pigs , the children , and the chickens live all over the place .