Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-19
EFICE 400 STATE STREET.
Price Four Cents.

der great elm tree and two men near them
 were working with their hoes on the road
 bed which they had just ploughed up. Bare
 footed boys and calico dressed girls met me
 as passed along, looking upon what theS-
 doubtless supposed regular tramp \
 About g mile out of the village I came to a
 watering place which spring was supplying
 from a nearby hill, and several boys were
 lounglng about the place, some on one side
 of the road and some on the other Seeing
 they had drinking vessel I asked, How
 much for drink ?' and one little five-year-
 old chubby fellow called out, Five cents '"
 while the older ones looked on with perfect scorn and said ''nothing.'' put my hand in
 my pock and took out nickel" and gave It to the little chap. After passed on Issaw every boy in sight gather at the spot, and the last view had of the party, they were taking "bee-line' for the town. In every field farmers were working their corn crop. and AS
 passed under great trees that at times met at their tops overhead, covering the road, I could not help enjoying my warm walk At one tune 1 halted and counted how many blrd-songs could hear. The shrill danger call of the robin, the guttural note of the olackblrd, the warble of the bobolink, the chlrp Of the cat-bird, the invitation of the thrush and the distant ''caw" of the crow were all heard at the moment besides voices of the smaller birds in the adjoining bush. I could enumerate five different insect shums." count eight varieties of wild flowers and plain ly smell SIX or seven varieties of odors from the blossoms near where stood. To remain qu1et moment was to see red squirrel A par of broodlng quail and almost any uuan- tlty of insect life flying in the air, or creep Ing under my feet. While in motion all these things would hardly be observed. and al. though present. doubt if the persons I saw riding by heard, saw or thought of a single thing I have named.
 AS passed through upper Orange I saw two men and one woman bathing with cold water large black horse, which from the idle moving machine in the partially cut hay field fancied had been overcome by the heat. Three boys, sitting on the ground near by, cried out. Have you heard from Gar field to day?" A couple of young men drove up, and stopping their fine turnout asked me If l could give them match Then fol- lowed several miles of monotonous travel. except once when I came within a yard of stepping on great black snake that was lying i'll my path and did not stir until I was upon him when he went into the adjoining he7ge fence almost as quickly as flash of lightning, leaving me shocked with astonishment, that I was not taking some measures to get a stick and break his back. Seeing suddenly a snake has about the same effect on every ones neryes,I fancy, and l claim no exception. Before our senses are collected for action the reptile is out of harms way, and that is the only req son why they have not long since been oanlshed from our State. I was so over come by the experience just spoken of that I passed the most de- lightful part of my journey without stopping to take that grand view from the top of those high hills about two miles out from Chapel street. On clear day you can easily see the shores of Long Island as we'll as far away in many directions. Passing the numerous ice houses and the ponds of water supply from the western source of our waterworks, I soon found myself in civilization at the end of the Derby road, and in few moments more I was sitting at my dinner table at home. NJ C. S.