The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21

. tough substance, resembling under
done sole-leather, nutritive but not at
tractive. They fry pork for break
fast, they do the same for dinner, and
are not original in the point ofsupper
They fry it with potatoes; sometimes
they fry it in a skillet: ] believe
they use it in their tea. For two
mortal weeks, we had nothing bu,
pork, until We got among the trout
and then we had trout and pork, and
pork and trout, and pork, trout with
or without trout, and trout with, OF
without pork, according to the taste
and fancy of the person porking OF
trouting, either or both respectively
At Colebrook, as said, we began
on pork. 1t was the first / had ex
perienced, and / thought it considera
bly, great. Subsequent events, how
ever, succeeded in graduating that
notion from my bosom.
Leaving Colebrook, we started fol
the Dixville Notch. We enquired
the state of the route before starting,
and were informed that, lin some
places, it wasn't as good as others,
which was about the extent Of the in
formation to be obtained. The people
of New Hampshire are remarkably
cautious in their statements, and not
at all prone to exaggeration, and We
learned that our route was in some
places little rough we thought to
have comparatively easy time of it.
But shades, and ministers of grace de-
fend US! People surrounded by the
comforts of civilized life can have no
idea of what roads are, or rather,
what a road can be, if it only has a
mind to. In the first place, it is like
going up and down the side of house.
In going down a steep pitch, a bottle
was jolted out of the rear of the wagon,
and fell over the horses heads. That's
a fact! | have the afidavits In ad-
dition, the way was impeded by i'm
mense granite boulders, a number of
feet one way, and as many the other,
which seemed to have been shaken cut
ola bag, with the proflsion of a pep
per-bOx. Then again, there was no
road to speak of at all, it having been
abandoned, as we afterward learned,
some ten years past; the rain also
had washed out deep gullies, where
your wheels are on each side, and
your horses down below, underneath
the wagon. But the crowning fea-
ture is the bridges. HP --ci - % &.
Bridges here are made to let PEG.
pie through into the water;
for that purpose they have large
holes - in them, loosely covered
with brushwood, and when the aun-
wary traveller steps upon it, he is seen
no more, and when they can't get
holes big enough, they have immense
logs rotted to the proper point, and
when you step upon them, the log
caves, a. it were, and you then per
ceive the exact purpose for which the
structure was intended, as above
stated. We came to one of these
bridges, and two of us, having some
idea relative to personal safety, de-
clined crossing in the wagon, and got
out to see it 60 down, and sure enough,
when the near horse got in the middle,
away went the whole concern, and the
animal went through into the bottom
of the creek.
1t was not, however, 90 deep, but
that by a judicious use of his forelegs,
he could crawl out Of the hole
through which he vent down, and he
came out on terra 6rma q wet, and, to
some extent, an agitated quadruped. |
This may not, perhaps, be interest
esting to the uninitiated, but one who !
has not witnessed cannot conceive how |
how funny it looks, to be driving a
pair of horses, and suddenly see one
disappear to the extent of about one /
half, his fore legs paving in the air,
and his hind legs somewhere else, not
Immediately visible, the general eff
fsct being that of an attempt to climb
. tree, without any immediate pros
pect Of success. No accident, how
ever, happened, and no other incon-
veniences than that of one or more
EGGS going through every bridge we
crossed.
The next day we reached the falls
# the Androscoggin. but had not yet
the trouting region. We
ook a boat, and guide, loaded in our
raps, and put out for the Megalloway.
This river is crooked beyond any
,ower of description it is practical
of the ways of the
vii one. One minute the sun Is be-
lind you; the next, ahead; then
light and left, cross the middle, up and
|own in every imaginable position.