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NJ cane and ?,
NOTES OF a FOOT TRAMP AMOSG Tux WHITE
MOUNTAINS.

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NOTES OF FOOT TRAMP AMOsG THE WHIT
NoUNTAss.
No. 3.
Editor Of tie Free Press s Ties:
Just beyond Mr. Perkins is a log house where
stopped to find the entrance of the forest road
leading to Enrol Dam 1t was the first inhabited
log house ever saw, ami | looked at il with
some curiosity. Log hut though it was. it Wa
very neat with its few flowers growing about the
door, and a scarlet lowered bean running over
it. | climbed the fence, and entered a clearing,
full Of fallen trees and tumps. Among all this
confusion the nath could not be easily iracei,
and went to another log house, the only one.
to inquire little girl Of , years answered
my knock, light-hared. gentle-eyed blonde,
with her knitting work in her hands. She was
alone, for her father vas over the river at work.
II seemed 50 strange 10 me 10 see this little
child alone in this houses Was she lovely
The face looked too gentle to bear well a lo4eiy
life, yet, if it is all the life she has ever known,
she and her life are friends, 20 present at least,
until She gets oller,oli enough to have the ques-
tons Of life, which force themselves upon the
soul, come to hsr demanding % solution.
During these many years IN which my cane
I ard have been such inseparahle comrades we
| have often come to houses far away from neigh
/ hors, where young girls have lived. And We
often wonder, my cane and /, if these Young
\ creatures arc groping with outstretchod hands
| for something which they feel they must have or
! perish. and vet, which they have never yet gain
( ed which they dare not hope O. gain AnI If
I their hourly life has bet been transfgurel tor
! them if, like Maud Muller, thev, too, are rest
/ ing from their work. aud thsf which might
/ make them blessed stop beside them fr p mo
/ ment. and then departs .or ever-aias flr a
/ young girl then
could almost wish that she were 10 utter
/ ignorance of anything higher th1u her present
I life: that her soul were asleep. rather than
av AXE, and beating its wing against it- prison
| bars 10 vain endeiyors TO free A boy can gene
| rally escape from such life, lui a girl nj 80
I easily But if she has learned her real vors.
and patiently, faithfully does it for the Masters
sake, that girl will, by and by, walk up from
/ the rude home 20 bee crowned Y0nder Talk of
I herosm 1 irmly believe that the world vii
/ one tly look on and wonder ~ the crognei
ones. For, among all, there viii be 10 mere
/ glorious crowns than those worn by the women
heroes who lived woman life truly, n0tly 70
| It's end.
Leaving the gsnle-eyel girl with silent
heueiictiou, ny cane and I sought the patt At
FIRST 10 was quite iniIstinct u the vet. L,at-trol-
l den ground. ami for ie" moments our ceu-se
was doubiiu. one but, very soon The nr-
TALLY cleared Hrl was passed, aui We enierr
the real forest An my cane ms i-a traap
of which we have oi'en drcamo!. isn't it7 ari.
flr the present th- tre-' must h@ g foreils'e ot
the stili greater ily we hope CO. have -ouc sav,
when my cane and I shall wander together
through ihe wilder passes o' tle Atr.uiacas.
To-day have afr.a fu.tIra e eaf .ffn.
of forest iu Which we stsi see 40 trace af
human beng; our path. ia- track ot the winter
iumhermeu. "th DE- b.azei '-ee'-s track that
every summer is n.lAnE ii.Hi'l "'.n Der l1Nnr-
iant cYer-rn"ih 'i bushes. lhr hf' D r.sly
roads D' i-a1 raA'us arc .u iir behind u-,
aa our hearts 0nALl ftsI -.fe t0 ihr e..-''e
tari t-uaia our Feet an Ne fnliy rtfei' ihe
beauty 90 tai- afternoon walls Tie Al-2-
-c1g-iu- .as Vl. -e bans we have Ae.t ever
since ~e came o. Dc al "orh'm. yesteriay' mp
pies along close ty Us o1 ile right, often cone
cea.ei from view, and thea. 30 ue place where
tue h7e has te-'r et a pr, " ite ire-', We
-ei r.'up-gs 20 most beautiful reach ot the
rver with t- l1rier Of -nr1-e trees. flowing
through This silent land lle only living things
] -ee afc ieT plr-r ices, uqlrtrve.y tlme,
t.r they -ee very little Co frga'en them once
in while huge trees g aer-s The path, and If
-f-. CHI over tasm ny cane std ca over also,
y De scat ar.lui. We 90 around, FIR here. il
che woods. ~c io just as the wooismen lo By
The side 70 fde Iafr, DO one phase, We found tW1
atte butts nsie g birch tr5 and leu-1ck
1.u-l-, With Ord 90 tae n'',-- We c-ep' into
one 10 then srt nr down t'r few moments.
% ye 4Fe..ors 90 fhe city throwing yourselves
40 night upon your hnlr mattresses 90 -eck thr
-.lri..er tt1f Wil ny come, l' you k11s, really
4uoT tle fragrant luxury .i q couch ot e-cr-
green tclghs Near hywere f9wers, Oh pretty
us4rt .orrH t-r9af Cs..-ls
Sp-r- flowers as they SIRE. they bed tu1i
new lie flowing through ;her delicate frames.
aui they h.'-s'uei I'D sai resI'n7e 20 the call
ol me autumn SUD. -1i' whispering i9 then Ir
warm te7'.r1e u. .s--' ifa these o.I forest
ires-
Asun 1rl l-l'n. came t' --re7 ns sing
my Ney i1 ply r'1 The u'c-- ben ! reached
i.t H'-i 3 'h H-ai my walk W ls ellei ln tle
winter, rl-l bridges i -- arc t1roFu c-'r
'l.l, tal aT chess structure are t-.'ru- ana.
H tie,, many i tle ~,reta $50 crossed. ra1l-
icutss never L-+ any bridges, ami ma-t have
tesa lls-ei Hy the logging --lm- ou rre snow
AMI lcv. Over one ot tne streams Jay q .H-
hli.r, with tls farther eu1 ou t'c shore. and the
nearer end 90 The water bu; / easily Jumpei
ur1n it ali c-o.seI The others by the aii OF
fallen ircc-, passed ulwei- it Che Filest one,
] aisde q raft 70 the tl1tils a-s, ,ni 1afl.et
ourselves over
oaee, from some snail, wandering cloud,
ieT -uow-ta1e- fell Their falling -acIei 60
intensity tle stiffness @. thc iro-'- lt vas
perfect silence Before 'ri when We s1w the
sno" ia-iu-, lis Aihes 81 syup0lcai oi gentle
ness, We iaaci1t that the stiffness a5ll. Us t.lA
ou "a deeper, -loimer hush, and olr hearts
bowel ia reverence within The woods; r surely
Che " Lord was 10 his holy temple ami the
earth was kceping " silence before him.
Aiier time. we reached logging camp, and
here We hal 90 -elr-h carefully to i1l the path.
for there were SD many about the camp ibat thc
exit 90 The true one was iudi.tinct. We tried
several only to hui them eni.ac ia ras1bcrrv
bushes ami fallen trees. but 10 Inst. iv the ail
of bmzeI trees. We found the right one, which
left the river bank along which it had run thus
flr. and struck of Al A RIGHT angle toward the