The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-20
Letter from DR.. Goldsmith.

substantial. The farmers have solid brick
farm houses and outbuildings. You hardly
see wooden frame house In all England.
The traffic is carried in strong, substantial
vessels The railway road beds are solid
the entertainments have long gentle slopes,
which look as If no amount Of frost or rain
would ever stir them The highway cross
ings are all made TO go under the road he'd,
through arches, or overhead, by solid brick
or stone bridges. The dwelling houses
have none of that bright sunny, airy cheer
fulness of the American home. They look |
solid and dingy. The cleanest thing in all
the country is the farm. The fields are |
generally small; divided, the one from the |
other, by very much such hedges as that |
before Wallace Clements in Rutland, but |
not so neatly kept. The general surface
reminds one of the more even parts of
Orwell or Shoreham. Most of il is undu.
latng. The streams have generally a cur
rent like Otter Creek, from Wallingford
to Rutland. But you no where see the
crystal waters of Vermont. Every stream
is more or less dingy with the offal of fac
tories
As / travel along the railways, am
surprised at the amount of game to be seen
everywhere along the borders of the forest,
seldom of much extent. You see pleas
ants quietly picking up, grasshoppers, and
they seem about as tame as our turkeys do
at home. This IS not to be wondered at
when you remember that the young birds
have TO be Matched under hens very often
in coops, here called phcasantries, and have
to be fed and nursed as tenderiy as chick
ems are at home So tame do they become
that it is about as difficult to make them
] take wing, as it would be to make turkey
fly in order to be killed secundem drtem.
The English partridge is very much like
the Virginia quail, hui about twice the size.
1t is larger and longer-legged, but striped
and colorcd very much like the hen quail.
You see them occasionally on the wing,
scared up from the bushes alongside of the
railroad track. But even they will remain
quietly looking at you as the cars whistle
by, not half so much scared by them as our
sheep are in Vermont. They fly only when
they are in danger of being run over.
Eares and rabbits abound everywhere,
along almost every hedge row just at
evening you see them playing as thick as
rats behind Merchants Row. All this is
in country where the houses are about as
thick as they are from the town house in
Rutland to the cd Billings place on the
road to Wallingford.
Not only is the expectant hunter here re-
quired to purchase license to shoot, but
he must also purchase the privilege of
shooting over the land. II is just as if in
Rutland, if wished TO shoot l should be
obliged in tue first place to pay five dollars
for license to use gun, and if wanted
to shoot on Pine Hill l would have to buy
or beg the right of Evelyn Pierpoint or any
other man. Having got the privilege from
Pierpoint, am not allowed to shoot one
step beyond his land line, even if the rab-
bit or fox am after falls wounded on the
premises of the adjoining owner. Even
the farmer here who may have procured a
license to shoot cannot shoot oyer the land
he hires. Only by special agreement he
has conveyed to him from the landlord the
right to kill game. One consequence of
all this is that every kind of game is undis-
turbed until the proper season. 1t is hus-
banded as sheep are with us, and it thus
becomes more plenty. of rabbits and
hares England consumes yearly about forty
thousand tons, and in many places the
money value of the shooting is more than
the rental of the land for agricultural pur-
poses. For instance, such tract of land
as you know Familiarity as Billings hill
would in England bring as much for the
shooting on it as 1t now would for pasture.
The person hiring the shooting on such q
tract would keep upon it half dozen
game keepers, and he and his friends would
annually spend more money in and about
this shooting lodge than the whole surplus
produce of the land would now amount to-
The English woodcock is just like our owr
except that ours is rather a stockier bird
but not quite so large.
There is kind of quail here which
have seen in the last few days in fiocks al
big as those of blackbirds with us. 1t il
the migratory quail-Wachtel of Germany
the one HAT my dear old departed FRIEND
Martin and used to talk about so much
If hp wcrnt dead would send or bring
some home with me. to see if we could moi
, acclimate them.
Isuppo sc that with certain liner OF
poetic fitness Bill Edgerton has seen to Il
that the one he and loved 30 much has
i been properly buried at the four-rod run
ain, in an ancient, historic and honorable
post-hole. Peace to his dear old bones
Rutland might well have spared dozer
: handsomer men. No more will that sonor
GUS laryngal 'ahem' usher in those quaint
old jokes which whilom gladdened and per
suaded obstreperous town meeting squad
, blers. No more will those round old moe
,, casn tracks be seen plotting the cage
| hunter along the messy lodges of Hail.
. Hill on the Mendon mountains. Faithful
old Juno, take it, has gone with him t.
: the happy hunting grounds. How it would
! gladden. his kindly, old heart, if he wer'
on earth, to know that the famous old ret
,, Irish setter "Dash" which saw at Not
r tingham dog show yesterday, held by hi
owner at flO,OOO-the taker of every priz
in his class at all the dog shows in Grea
Britain-is as much like Juno as his Dash
. twin sister could well have been. thinl
Martin would have given up the ghos
q without sigh if he could have had thi
!. assurance ere he sadly laid by his pipe ant
> solemnly decided Dan and William Green,
!, to his sorrowing chums. / haven't scel
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