St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-05-07

content to take the guides pace. know
ing certainly that it pays in the long
run, and saves an enormous amount OF
fatigue. and therefore of time also.
Very short steps. slowly. silently, and
T steadily placed, but as regular as mar
tial music. never varying in beat, never
broken by alienation of strides and
pauses this is the guides example for
uphill work, and vet it is what one
never believes in till one has learned by
experience that one gets through twice
as much by it.
/. 1t is wonderful what saving of
fatigue it is if from the very beginning
one oheyS the guide implicitly and fol-
lows him exactly. lOu spy such a
handy ''>hort cut" you can see so pre-
ciScly where You can join the path
again, it will save You such provoking
long round, You can't think why the
guide does not choose it SO away
You 60. eXulting in your cleverness,
straight uphill instead of that tiresome
zigZag.
But it is rather sleeper than you
thought, and you get just little out OF
breath and you find an awkward littlI
perpendicular rock right ID the way,
and yot must go round it and thu
You get into rhododendron bushes which
are thicker than you thought and you
get very wet and then you see your
companions reaching the point yOu are
making for. and you scramble and hur-
rN. And by the time you have done
with your short cut, you find you have
not only gained no time. but that the
few minutes away from the guide have
heated You and taken more out of Nou
that an hours steady following. Later
III the day ynu rccollcct Your short cuts
"t the morning. ami wish you had econ
on,izcd Your breath.
). The full value of exact following
is not learned IN the valleys or pastures.
Ii is on the high Places and on the
un>ulli"d oW-iicld> that one discovers
this. 1t is when we alc high away above
the green Slopes, seeing no track but our
guides own footsteps. that we learn its
safety. He set his foot on that stone
there Nou must set Yours. for the next
* loose and would hrtrly YOU: he
planted his aiprnst"rk on that inch ot
rock there You must plant yonIS. tnI
an inch either WAY would give no firm
hold he climbed 10y that iut of rock
:" must you. tuI I'll" other would bc tou
hart Il step: he splang hu! halfway over
that torrent. and N"u must do the same
1T cost "t Wcttlng N"Ur feet. for he
knew that the slab of rock which you
could have reached at one bound was
trrH"herou>iy slippery and dangerous.
II l. here also that We get into the
way ri instant and unqnrStionlng com
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