Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) VAGABONDING THROUGH CHANGING GERMANY [Illustration: THE GERMAN SOLDIER IS BACK AT HOME AGAIN] VAGABONDING THROUGH CHANGING GERMANY _By_ HARRY A. FRANCK _Illustrated with photographs by the author_ [Illustration: CENTURY·VAGABOND·BOOKS] GROSSET _&_ DUNLAP ∽ _Publishers_ _by arrangement with The Century Company_ Copyright 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published June, 1920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE FOREWORD xiii I. ON TO THE RHINE 1 II. GERMANY UNDER THE AMERICAN HEEL 24 III. THOU SHALT NOT ... FRATERNIZE 52 IV. KNOCKING ABOUT THE OCCUPIED AREA 68 V. GETTING NEUTRALIZED 84 VI. THE HEART OF THE HUNGARY EMPIRE 112 VII. “GIVE US FOOD!” 137 VIII. FAMILY LIFE IN MECHLENBURG 159 IX. THUS SPEAKS GERMANY 178 X. SENTENCED TO AMPUTATION 199 XI. AN AMPUTATED MEMBER 219 XII. ON THE ROAD IN BAVARIA 248 XIII. INNS AND BYWAYS 271 XIV. “FOOD WEASELS” 290 XV. MUSIC STILL HAS CHARMS 321 XVI. FLYING HOMEWARD 343 ILLUSTRATIONS THE GERMAN SOLDIER IS BACK HOME AGAIN. _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THE FORMER CROWN PRINCE IN HIS OFFICIAL FACE, ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF A GERMAN OFFICER AND COUNT, WHOSE MILITARY ORDERS ARE CARRIED ON THE CUSHION IN FRONT 62 THE HEIR TO THE TOPPLED THRONE WEARING HIS UNOFFICIAL AND MORE CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSION 62 BARGES OF AMERICAN FOODSTUFFS ON THEIR WAY UP THE RHINE 63 BRITISH TOMMIES STOWING THEMSELVES AWAY FOR THE NIGHT ON BARGES ANCHORED NEAR THE HOLLAND FRONTIER 63 A CORNER OF THE EX-KAISER’S PALACE AFTER THE SPARTICISTS GOT DONE WITH IT 174