The Kiwi That Whmmpped (Swiss skiing)

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THE KIWI THAT WHMMPPED . ! "Lauterbrunnen - Wengen - Kleine party of holidaying poms. Cor! peasant Scheidegg! Alles Einsteigen Bitte!!!" mokker!! untouched by wind and Swiss railways always leave on weather. . time : : - does he have to shout like that, "Lauterbrunnen - Lau-terbrunnen!" Ruedi? I bet someone swipes my skis "Ruedi! Everybody's getting out - out of the luggage van - 10.25 a.m. aren't they going to Scheidegg?" Christmas morning, never skied at "We must change trains to go to Christmas before, glissaded maybe - Scheidegg - mountain railway, narrow wooden seats! Good heater though . gauge - - cogs . - - you know?" did we have to get in a carriage with a O-oh, another scramble for skis how come everybody has got old Khanthere, now where's Ruedi? dahar bindings? Where's Ruedi? "Let's go!" Not much wind but its "Which bloody train now? Do we change damn cold. If it was below 0 deg. C. in again? - Just as well!" Interlaken it can't be very tropical here Ruedi's got some tickets for the ski Not more poms! If they knew other lift-80 cents a ride - - . that's 1/4!!! I people spoke English too they'd shut can't afford that. - up for the rest of their lives Pretty steep railway, tunnels and all! Breath- On we go. T bar is 3500 ft. long, rises taking views-like callendars moving 1200 ft. and lifts 600 to 700 people per past the carriage windows cold, çold hour. Two every twelve seconds!! Not snow blanketing everything black much time to move. skeletons of trees. - Here's my ticket - don't ask A village-Wengen. Three-storied me questions, and I'm not studying chalets-sturdy, wooden and warm, too International Relations at Dijon Unimany hotels, neon signs and trinket versity (Ruedi and his swindle!). Better shops. to pay the full franc, please, please . "Where do they ski, Ruedi?" Cor, our turn - quick - the damn left-T that patch-ski sticks on jax that's steep! Right below that cliff too. under bottom-bend knees-we're away! visions of speed the skis gliding across the powder. Whew - poles over shoulder Sky still grey-snow showers drifting "Hey!!! this is good - I've never been down from all around, three layers of on a T bar before! Yess Ruedi, we do wool, two parkas, climbing trou and have them. - - What? Tell you later!" over-trou hot in here but looks cool How do you get off this thing - out. . Gloomy forests - . Hell! there's The Lauberhorn run. . Wish those would off flat bit. people skiing down that track . under people move that If the railway too, eh. - . . Whoops! Gosh! people get on every twelve seconds Icy on that bend, must remember in people must off every twelve seccase we come down. - "Where's Kleine onds. Panic! O.K.! Skis clatter on Fean Scheidegg?" ice, stand : - - poles, turn! Whew! Hell, it's miles down there. Man, it's "Not far, the train is overloaded, cold. Move. This place is crowded. always the same in holidays." Wish Move! Follow Ruedi. Down the piste. they'd all get off! I want to skil! Icy here. Where's the powder? O.K. Ruedi's eyes light up, he laughs at O.K. Manners; Hmmnn, maybe I'm not me and then turns to try to catch the so good. Turn - there . Ah, eye of a blond. powder! Round my knees!!!! Hell's good. teeth, Scheidegg at last! A railway station How'm I goin' to turn! and a hotel-no village. Where's my skis? - . let the mob go Whmmp!!!