The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-21
Of the Rutland Globe.
\ Week in the woods,

! (MARnN's HOTEL, MONTGOMERY CENTER,
VERMONT.
we went by train the usual way" to
paraphrasc, perhaps unadvisedly the words
of a familiar song, by the author OF Beau
tiful SNOW believe. That is to say we
embark ON The cars and travel an hour or
two. after which we change our convey
/ anCc for comfortable wagon drawn by
pair of as fine horses as you would care TO
! ride after. and another hour brings us up
alongside the piazza OF our chosen head
! quarters. 1t is a neat. fresh, white coun-
! try inn, with green blinds on every window
and a patch Of green sward in front, which
has an inviting appearance and fully sus-
/ iains lis character on closer inspection.
The first thing we accomplish is marvel
Gus supper for which the fresh clover
scented air and the quick ride have made
us hungry and shortly after vespcr smokes,
we do some equally marvellous sleeping
I'll explain what | mean by the plural
pronoun, and introduce you to our party
while at breakfast discussing the respect
i've merits of the different trout streams
upon information furnished by our land
lord and assistants. First there is the doc
tor, who came in his professional black,
and sent back by the driver in all humble
ness of spirit for his oldest suit and hcav-
lest boots. Then there is. the professor,
who is mighty man with the mystic rod
and fly, who is attired for the occasion in
top boots and blue flannel shirt, and OPP
presses us all with consciousness of our
own ignorance, although there never
brcathcd more unassuming expert. Next
comes the general, who bears marks of the
'la,e onpleasantneas," and navigates with
facility that is simply wonderful on
crutches and last and least, the subscr-
Der, who. is uncanny in top boots, blue
! shirt and straw hat, which serves for UNI
brella also when occasion requires
Finally we conclude to follow up the
lovely little stream which flows by within
a stones cast of the piazza. Its channel is
rocky and picturesque, with falls and
rapids fairly crowding each other, and
making sweet music and cooling the air de-
liciousy. The forest slopes down on either
side to the banks, still and green, restful
to the weary eye and ear.
We separate and commence the sport.
The Professor goes up stream and perches
on huge boulder, whence he angles with
success, until in an inadvertent moment he
tumbles off "into the drink, as he laconic-
ally terms it, and has to be fished out in
turn. Nothing daunted, however, he shakes
himself and goes on angling as if nothing
had happened. | alone do not fish, past
experiences not having had a tendency to
encourage me, but lounge around on the
rocks, basking in the sunshine, luxuriating
in the shade and inspecting in turn the fast
filling baskets of my friends. We come
back tired and happy, with sunburned
faces and freshness in our hearts which
may not be found in the town. We play
croque: in the twilight, smoke our pipes in
the starlight, and then sleep again in a
dreamland where peaceful waters glide
and playful waters dance down to the I'M
known sea.
Next morning for breakfast we have
trout innumerable-b brook trout than which
a more delicious fish does not wear fin, and
can do the rcpast full justice be assured.
After breakfast the doctor mysteriously
disappeared, and after waiting for his re-
turn "till hope deferred maketh the heart
sick, we conclude he is old enough to take
care of himself, and start on the excursion
we have mapped out, which is that of the
day before in duplicate, following another
of the num5erless brooks which wind their
silvery way down through the little VALLEY.
The professor seems to have adopted a rule
about falling off slippery rocks into the
water, which involves the daily perform
ance of that duty, and he conscientously at
tends to II, but slows away in his basket
many spotted beauty from out of the
crystal depths, as also does the general, who
scales boulders and prccipices to all
appearances utterly inaccessible to him,
with the greatest apparent ease.
So we come back with substantial trop-
hes OF TIE chase, to find that the doctor
has just arrived from another direction
with SO many trout that the number of the
professors and the generals multiplied by
nine (O) does not equal the sum of his. We
subsequently ascertain that he hired two
men, surreptitiously to fish for him, but
this fact doesn't impair our appetitcs and
only has tendency to make the doctor a
little glum when the circumstance is men
toned to him.
Through the shades of evening one by
one, the good old farmers whose rich green
meadows skirt these streams, wend leisure
ly their way to our piazza, to pass con
verse with each other on the subjects near
est to their lives, and exchange for such
fragments of the great worlds gossip as
we chance TO let fall, the homely, the
sweet lore of their native hills. Men OF
wit and mind are they, quick to see a
point or joke and store it away in their
memories to be brought forth some even