Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and Periodicals

Schloss-Hotel | "Bird-Cage" Illustration from A Tramp Abroad | Context

"This hotel had a feature which was a decided novelty, and one which might be adopted with advantage by any house which is perched in a commanding situation. This feature may be described as a series of glass-enclosed parlors clinging to the outside of the house, one against each and every bed-chamber and drawing-room. They are like long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the building. My room was a corner room, and had two of these things, a north one and a west one."

From A Tramp Abroad chapter 2, p. 28:
 

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