The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-09-27
I; MUSIC no oFsrHE WATERS.
A HOLIDAY DIVERSION AND WHAT
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y, And so all i had to do was to go into
1.-THE country and enjoy myself for six
. weeks-that Is what IL came to. ~
n Why ifanyone had struck me with
q feather at the moment the doctor
! uttered his verdict I should certainly
have been knocked down; fortunately
: 40 such atrocity was attempted, SO /
=, maintained as erect a posture as my
snfeebled health would allow until the
q eminent ulicentiate of the College Of
y Physicians, whom / was consulting,
sdbegged me to resume my seat. ~ 4.
i + are utterly smoke-dried," he
!, sLonlsd ia or or tobacco ss / inquired.
ssid Both % he answered. "No physic;
fresh air Is what you want-mountain
! '.sbstsmicus hsbits; early hours aud 10
"But. W II feebly protested, don't
care about the country; how am to
fill up my timeW lii5
"Nonsense; you know nothing of 1t,
Ia&$za snegF own moving. and as 70 oc-
~ that
q rss lIxAt Es -
1 {5 ! <oQ9 = eSsi ~ land
!. POUNDS; 20 look at trees Nnd fielde, lis
. tenctO the birds and music Of running
l0llow this out andsyoa will be
IA q difiefeht rian'in six weeksy ~ =
~ land. fhepgr'I blapkly inquired. u
20 s.sfheng c, then,u he answered, "get
!. married apd settle down. ~
.sItcertafnIy wac fortunate + YVES not
standing up at that moment, for 1t
would not have needed a touch of the
fno yxov f<>.h q 40 III ma Iouy
AS it was I sank back I'm my chair
aghast. 'Get'marriedp ,I thought;
:, who was utterly insensible to female
= attractions, and who had always been
taught to have an eye to the main
!. i,chance and regard matrlmony as clog,
'unless associated with o great heiress.
~ 7 get married on salary Of $500 a year.
I, ,WheW M y. 49,, ii, go. ,,,sest.
( III left Saville row with scarce anoth-
(, eer word, CONVINCED that for real, down
right, Impractical men there were
Z n0neto be compared to doctors.
Thus took the plunge, and within
five day found myself At eep % little
= inn,in North Wales, hard by a cele-
brated spot known as the DEVILS
Bridge, !" y few miIesf from Aberystwith.
~ L confess at once to having. been a
little astenished and pleased at the
Uc1ulY VI tuO bCC1ACAJs 4hS hSAR$NtCSs
novelty-I felt would keep me going
for some time. 60
The change soon refreshed me. was
astonished at feeling neither dull mol
Ionely-fOr the tourist season had hard.
,.ly.seI in, and I had the little inn well
J nigh to myself. So / wandered about
and gazed wonderingly on oil / saw
especially at the deep, lcraggy, wooden
gorge or mountain river bed across
- which his Satanic Majsnty's engineer
Ing skili was supp " hege been
Al s<iisplayed. srft f<-tN$sfIy%&
"a A I stood looking down upon il
49, from the bridge ndaS the fnuytN Ger
- tainly seemed to me a .w0nder0usly
80 romantic spot, Steep rock bount
~ banks, crowded win tfees, hemmet
sslin the rushing foaming river, its chan
mel becoming irregularly narrower ant
moreprecipftousas Il reached the heas
"a. 3fthe valley ia the depths ofwlich \
lay. Here there was a waterfall, as
- thtnthought ,ofsttfpe ndousmagnitude
, and yet q little higherpp, o second still
larger. = AS made my way down t,
tie river by a well-worn path through
"A wood, the sound Of the descending
> waters, as. waited on the soft summe
:. breeze, It rose and fell in liquid ca
4. : slence, fascinated me from the yer,
J ysfirst..'sA distance it was but q muir
CO.. jiItir: but as drew nearer i seemed II
fancy that melodies innumerable wer
s'Rrowing out OF it-wfld unequal melo
y dies, that touched cords In my natur
~ of the existence ofwhich bad hither
: 30 been ignorant. cared no more 70
music than for any other OF the REIN
ing, ;softeningy infiueneesiO life, an'
II now there seemed awakening In me 81
~ entirely new man. / did not know
= myself end the facination led me OF
"''>i Now I would stop and tilt my hea,
from side to side, listening to the val
ieties of sounds / thus gained. Then
: -affer advancing a little to increase tn
~es strengtlFofa tones 4 would retreat s
80 tii6x Tho delicate decline Of sp6we
should be made to add anOther charm
u In this fashion i literally spent som
90 hours Defore 7 actually reached tn
Of the. torrent and experience
in It's full force the sFemcndous roar {
thsrnhing uws6ass Why. p here wa
ga. occupation "A -weelrs,. I 1. Thought, 4
80 merely fistehins to s'thefe ,bedptifl
. iloises; and had not The doctdf tod m
that M. yas one. n, the ways IN whic
- ssid, ListeH 10 the mii,sicl al rSpnnin
Ts&tfSS uMsl ssSfEI N S lpsS AZ
g z S Myself sf' g sc e is y dsi
Id ldlensss. Fhen, as II further 1
Sssys'RRs ss 3ss % assSS,sse 20
q ea1(4t,-ofmy nature, r!osnd' anon
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