Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

assumption on the part Of these girls and
dudes, male and female loafers alike that
they can do as they please with anything that
is out of doors in the country. Gates are
left open and bars are let down by these city
visitors, 90 that our cattle get into the now
ing or stray away into the woods, where the
time of some industrious person is required
to hunt them up a dozen Of these superior
beings will trample through our standing
grass or grain, all blssfuly unconscious Of
the fact that they are doing n great deal of
damage q party of these ineflable idiots
will get up picnic in our woods and build
fires and go off and leave them burning our
raspberry bushes along the walls will be ruth
lessly stripped Of their luscious fruit before
we get q chance at il ourselves our buckle
berry pastures will be overrun worse than by
beasts our trees will be cut down or skinned;
and all Horts of petty annoyances which ig-
norance or carelessness can think of, will be
inflicted upon us, for the mere amusement of
summer idlers who do not know how to kill
time without troubling other people.
II every girl who carries back from the
mountains a big roll of birch bark, which
she is going to fabricate into fancy baskets
and cornucopias and needle books according
to the recommendations of the fashion maya
zine, copied and endorsed by the religious
and family papers, but which will be much
more likely to be around for while and then
get thrown away, would stop for a moment
to think that the life of beautiful tree, and
that tree belonging to somebody else rather
than to herself had to be sacrificed for this
folly, perhaps it might have an effect toward
inducing higher regard, on the part of our
city cousins, for the old fashioned virtues of
honesty and consideration for others.
The reader will probably infer that don t
like summer boarders. Well don't; and
l notice likewise that, around this section of
the country, none of the farmers do. By
farmers mean people who make their living
by farming. 1t was all very well few years
ago, before the attractions of the neighbor-
hood were well known, that now and again
visitor from the city, with his family, should
revisit the place where he was brought up,
or that some chance conner, impressed with
the beauty of our rural hills and smiling val.
leys, should be attracted summer after sum
mer to spend here a brief holiday. They
were pleasant and welcome guests, and
brought into our quiet country lives a CLEAN
from the great world outside. They came to
us for rest and to get away from the crowd,
and they fell naturally into our ways of liv.
ing. Now it is all changed two big hotels
have been built within a few miles, and all
the villagers take summer boarders. Those
who come among us now, come not to get
away from crowds and excitement, but only
to bring crowds and excitement among u.s.
Our fields and woods are not our own for
three or four months in the year; our coun-
try ways are made the subject of ridicule :;
our quiet Sundays are disturbed by thought
less and noisy parties of riders or ramblers
our industry is Knocked by their laziness, our
thrift by their extravaganza our rights are
disregarded, and our feelings wantonly out.
ragged, by those who, like the lilies of the
field, toll not, neither do they spin" Ger
tainly, for one, would willingly dispense
with our city visitors, until they can learn to
treat us and our belongings with as much re.
gard to the laws of courtesy and honesty as
they expect us to show when we go to visit
them.