Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-19
CORRESPONDENTS.
How One Vacation Was Spent. ON BOARD STEAMER NARRAGANsETT,


 Aug. 16.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 It is some time since I have sent you let ter, and had almost forgotten that had ever written one for newspaper until 8 day or two ago. riding on the near Saratoga, a well known New Haven man said to me that he wished would write you some more | about my experiences" and for the gratif- l cation of such as he I will now give little 1 account of how busy man may spend va cation without loss of time and yet have 8 good deal of real enjoyment. It is not the fortune of your correspondent to have lots ! of time, or money, on his hands to go to the fashionable summer resorts, visited Gas I \ read by your paper almost every day) by l many of the residents of beautiful city, ! and it is more of wonder than ever that ! anyone who can have so many enjoyments as ! are to be found at home will put himself to ! so many inconveniences, going away, for the sake of so called change" which in reali- ! ty means nothing more or less in most cases than an imaginary 'tstyle.' And so they Ro
 It may be so in the case of the writer, for
 s'it IS as we'll to be out of the wo1ld as out of | the fashion," Anyhow, on the 5th day of
 July last we packed up, '' shut up the house,
 closed the shutters pulled down the shades I and left, exactly the way that our neighbors \ ! at home all the while except on Sunday, \ while all the rest of the family were away
 down quiet farm in New Jersey, which ! place every Saturday night found me to stay over until the following Monday morning
 But I cannot pass without saying word ! about that farm, for it has been in the hands ! of it's present owners for many generations I and even the animals that have been raised | within it's limits and have served a life ser \ vice upon it, have special burial place as- signed them in back lot in far off pasture. | The house. built originally over hundred 1 years ago, with hewn cross timbers plainly in ! sight, and caves so low that you can almost
 touch them with your hand, has been added \ to at different later dates until to day 1t is \ one of the largest in the neighborhood, and ! has as many rooms npon the ground floor as ! 8 good sized hotel. Just in front and beside
 much travelled country road, stands a we'll of about the coolest water to be found, and the short walks from the several front doors 5 ! which lead to this spot are through beds of , old fashioned flowers, which only to be
 found cultivated by just such people as here ! reside In the pea vines in the. garden a it- ! tie bird has made her nest, and when last seen the young pets were almost ready to fly. \ In the barn litter of kittens had grown
 from blindness into good-sized, wild and ! ever playful young mousers, and the young | turkeys had matched out and died off by the t ! dozen and chickens by the score. The old . \ father turkey had taken to leading his family f \ into too distant haunts, and so he was con ] ! fined for time and then served for $ e Sundays dinner, but his imprisonment die 2 ! not add to contentment or size, for he "fel I off from weight of over twenty pounds te T just sixteen.
 n One of the most noteworthy and sad hap r penings took place few days before we left , | During the long dry weather the COWS became s ! very short of water in their usual place, anc e so the ''spring" was redug much larger ant ! deeper, and when 8 COW of the herd of \ ne1ohbOrjnp farmer ta 6niOy itS h2nefi she either fell in or was pushed in by others
 3 and was found by her owner just she wal
 ! being drowned. He raised general cry
 ! and it being at that hour of the day whe1
 | the linen folks'' were away in the fields a
 ! work, only the women responded to the call ; and being aroused by the fact that some V ! thing was drowning became so excited tha v ! before aid could arrive the poor wa r dead, and her loss was mourned over as on J., of the family, for she was the gift of fathe e to his daughter before she married, wh . ! had brought her up from calf Ion bot 1T \ tie , and it made the loss on that accoun e far more than usual one.
 is Nearly all the while we were there we hae n ! raspberries from the vines in the garden ant s ! newly plucked garden sauce at every meal T., ! which, with most excellent rye bread, mad O ! such living no first-class hotel could giv a for my personal liking. Although situate F. ! some miles from 8 railroad station, hors st | and carriage always came for me and took m " \ to the cars, and the ride in the early evenin n \ or morning was one of the most enjoye :, things of all. One day the temptation wa , too great to resist I had to stay over an O help them make hay and how it brough 7- back the remembrances of twenty five year ,e ago. The implements used were exactly tn |, ! same as handled when boy, and althoug al \ I made several blisters my hands, lon "a ! unaccustomed to the work, it was found t m ! come as handy to them if the employ ,s \ ment had come with each year. How tn is I habits of youth cling to us! From the mow is ing of the grass. the tossing of the hay an If the pitching of it from the wagon to tn .e mow, all were perfectly natural and easil ID done as when I was on my fathers far1 2, long, long ago. For the time the 'rufie n \ business was entirely forgotten, and I live ,e in the past, and it seemed as if the years ths re had come and gone since the time when I we a busy with the self-same employment were a a a blank. dream and not until I had bee ,o ''on the road'' for several days, selling good re did I feel as if I was farmer no longer. ii But all things (even this letter. have a f. end We now all home again and th of usual ''hum drum" of daily life is resumed I'd Vacation season with us is over, except a " occasional row on Lake Whitney. and tt ic busy press of ''fal trade'' is knocking at or ir doors, and listening to It's call I close tn n ! letter and obey it's summons. M. c. $. ca