Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-02-24
Sliding down Hill.

lDeTc ~ nOUlNB III tHe UNplcS lNAb can con
sole a man doomed to dwell there for the loss
q northern winters. Monkeys and hum
ming-birds, gorgeous flowers and gigantic veg
citation, insects, reptiles, luscious fruits,
which you cannot cat without q cholera, swell
teung nights and roasting days. D'liycr us
from the ntolerable delights ol tropical luxu.
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But northern winter i3 foil Of bracIng joys
indoors all il rudJy and social, and out OF doors
all is energy and manly j1y A man who bas
blood and vital spirits glofle5 IN the Geld Of
winter. But OF all its sports, what one can
claim superiority over c0astiHg or, as in our
boyhood days it was called, sliding down Hill
Long before We attained tue age Of sled, two
barrel-slayes, fastened together by the knowing
workman, served us an excellent purpose, and
required no little skll in sitting and steering.
A slight mist Ike in bal nelug. and tho boy and
slaves change places, the boy under, and the
sliding machirs sa-top, and then gradually roll
ing into ptomscuous heap, out Of which
came some ripping remarks-not made by tie
s.eG.
Next como the glory Of full and real ,lod-
sbip,--a sled with runners, and iron or steel
shoJ slcd plluted and lett,rcd With tha4
we dene1 th1 thermometer and set our lae.
against tbonorth.wini. And how tho long hli
ull ha.l.nil,, ia sought, not all ot gentle
slope, nor VET too steep, but properly made up
as all hill. should be, with hno gradual begin
niug, then pitch quite steep, then another long
middle slspe, and a j)unce here, a ruil0ck there.
o. weep yOnder round point and O fetching.
up.piaes rgh, along the river Ohsaeha hill
top, with glorious ,led well-mUiled and mi5
,eu.d, the boy seats himself % ais stosd, proud
cr than ever sat King upon bis throne Away
be goes, with nimble feet reach NJ out before
him tor a sled carries It's ru1dc~ o. tho bow
ard whose heels, with skillul touca, steer tie
dying machine. See hun make a leap over the
full0ck, lifted clear into the alr, and coming
down witIa louno, ina! made every thing crack
but the boy Boys lave springs inside of
them, under every muscle, on all sides OF eacn
bone, and come down With springy bolHd that
ears and carriages may envy, but cannot hope n
attain Nono Of your belly founders biz
living down on o sled like a buckWheat cake on
grd0le, or that sideways sitting, on the hind
end OF II, with one leg cork screwed out behind
for aefng, are aos the thing They are not
orthodox They SAVIOR ol compliance with
weakness and tim.lity. real boy should So
upon bis sled fair and fquarc, with he face to
has va Ork and ready ~ meet all difficulties with
h!s breast to om.
Nor Jet any one decry the long tramp up hill
tAa. follows tnls flight downward. What il lt Is
long ,hc slsd hanging bshind, the way slip
psiv and witha .Jmc peril Of those ayalanches
81 other boys that come roaring a.d whirlug
down? rne going up is still an indispensable
part Of the enc. ID IS the dark that gives pow
cr t. the higA light. IA up makes, ty con-
tast, The very glory Of the do'ca. Besides.
a3it is appointed to every hen, when she las
laid on egg, to enter at large ioto the merits
th performance, and to tell tic barnyard and
neiglborhood her opinion OF that last egg and,
doubtless, if we but understood the interior
meaning Of carkie, 10 say" Here aa egg
for omeIet,es. omplettes, omelettes good also
lor cakes cakes, cakas the very soul Of cus-
tlrI, castard, cusuJd good raw, good roasted
good boiled, good fried. Good soft or hard -
good cgs., good cgss, very good eggs, 40 (Iet
sentence 50 that we don just sl3 how TO 'te
i. totether,-ab, here .t is as this ben hayii &
dome al. the above, discourses Of 1t gag pr
above translaton.) So the by occupies the as.
cent IN declaring the skill spec@' ana "onoei'H
daring OF his dcacent and isyehement 10 sett'n.
forth what tthtd 70 uhNS A1i lNAN" St'N wy
thing which he almost d@.
We never see the snow on the ground old rs
we are, that we do not feel The very spirit OF the
.lrd again. And now, an old man, We would, il
we could mount and plum down the hill laga'u
ruourh mans halr is as white az the snow
under his feet, he neel not be ashamed of a
VOYAGE On sled
There is but unecity in the nation, that w
know of, that is civilized, and that city New
Bedford. One winter rot long ago, when w'
we're tuere. We 0ouud long street refused t.
hors,-ych.clss. and sci apart to sleds. The oe
lectmrn. or whatever their names were, at th
public expense carted snow On whore the trac'
was worn iced il by water thrown on over
night stationed tard Of music there; ha
torches ht and placed along the sides and th
generous people, catching the spirit, ilnm'ne,
their houses, and this preparation was the
thrown open TO men, women and children Iha
city was civilized That part OF the millennium
which consist. in sliding down hill We believ
wall begin first in New Bedford" Eyes an
Ears, by II. W Beecher.