Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-24
LETTET FROM RHODE ISLAND.

we leave Watch Hill, with its pretty
cottages, fine, large hotels and o, such
splendid surf Do you want to have a
glorious time Come to Watch Hill.
Do you want to drink in health with ev-
cry breath and gather strength with ev-
cry moment ? Come to Watch Hill. Do
you want to forget dull care, forget all
plaques of business. all worry of house
hold duties Z? Come to Watch Hill and
eat fish fresh from the sound stow away
baked clans gulp down clam chowder
or swallow lobster /; run on the track
until the salt air makes every nerve in
your body Jingle with new life; plunge
into the waves until every pore has its
fill of stimulant (; then off with your
dripping clothes, ON with fresh, dry ones
and then for sail in the warm sun
shine, with just enough breeze to fan the
exhilarated spirits to quiet which will
soon send you to sleep, if you yield to
the touches of the sleepy god and stretch
yourself upon the soft cushions of the
boat. Had | possessed the power of a
fairy, would have waved my scepter
over the heads of half Orleans county,
and, 10 they would be enjoying Watch
Hill with me. Maybe they would have
cried, "Spare US; enough of water" for
I've long ago learned that what is to one
"the music of the waters" 'old oceans
mighty voice "a lullaby to soothe to
rest, is to another only "the slosh of
the water" so l shouldn't expect to make
every one happy, but I'll be bound I'd
send them all away with sounder livers,
clearer heads, less sluggish blood, and
better christians, for liver and religion
are often mistaken for each other.
Come, but not this year, for the sea-
son is ended, the last firt has packed
her traps, the last young man who has
labored so industriously in the pursuit
of a rich wife, has this day departed in
a sail-boat for Stonington, and to-mor-
row we "follow suit But there is an
other year coming. and I haven't heard
of Prot. TyndalI's prophcsying the vocau
would run dry, SO you may yet get a
chance to make yourselves charming in
bathing suit. If you want to dress
finely, and swell around with the rest Of
the devotees of fashion, go to the Watch
Hill House, or the Larkin-the last
kept by Vermonter who also ran a
! house IN Florida when l was there-and
pay your three dollars per day like g
little man, billiards and cigars extra
} You won't have to stay very long to rur
/ through the money you got for the COW
you sold, but you will he "going il
! whole hog" and can live on the bristle:
5 after you get home. If you should chance
e to have less ambitious streak o'ertak,
e you and conclude to get more oats TO
2 your money. there are numerous les
!, pretentious places. one of which, tn
n Peninsula House, we have found to be
: very desirable place, with clean, swee
: rooms, excellent table, an obliging hos
Y and hostess, to say nothing of charm
e ing daughter. to whom surely shoul
j. have made love had I been converted t
n Mormonism, during my recent sojour
i in the City of the Saints.
n By the by, I'm going to tell you abou
Il my sojourn there, one of these days, bu
l. not in this, my last night by the Sc;
10 side,
d where the flowing tide comes n.'
D. 1 had rather walk on the beach, und,
to the pale moonlight, watching the viii
Or sea-foam tremble and roll. gatherir
d, strength with every advance, until
In last it quivers and totters and breal
OF and creeps to my very feet. And the
ed as if half ashamed of a weakness boz
r. of such strength, it slides noiseless
be back over the sands, until it is safe
the bosom of another wave, and then
y, comes back again little stronger, Ii
at tie surer of its power; but, alas
mt breaks again and only comes little ia
nd Their, and kissing my feet goes back
N, the mother wave. Do you like pebbles
he No? Well, I'm sorry, for there is he;
% of beauty in them and whole mountai
of of pleasure in hunting them. [ used
mt go into ecstacies over the treasures
en- found in the Green Mountain tro
Ige brooks, but learned new lesson
of pleasure to-day. pulled off boots a
lch stockings, then | got into bathing 81
Der and away went into the sound, hui
Ist, ing for pebbles. How l wished | mie
ing always wear bathing suit and hu
to pebbles There l sat in the water, d
ms, ging down into the sand and pulling
me stones with almost as many colors
ers the rainbow. 1t a0as real pleasure. Do
you believe me? Come to Watch Il
and try it for yourself. Then | hum
out sea moss. l saw dainty specimen,
cal beautifully green as ever queen of oct
lte, cave wore to adorn her garments.
in went for it then and thar" 1t did
in carry out the words of the poem &
la ''come down like falling STAR" but
MIR. stead, it rather moved away to dee