The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-29
with Every variefy of Scenery in tt

with Every Variety of Scenery in the
Course of the Days Drive.
II the day be fine their can be no difficulty
in Ireland of shaking off importunate
thought. should you be neither landlord. land
agent nor land grabber. { You ordered tho
car over night at $50. so by 10 you ought TO
find it ready packed and waiting for you.
Naturally, you first cesst a glance at the
hOrse-an understood animal, who looks Us if
he could &c, as indeed ne can, although ne fs5s
no neck TO speak of, and has probably been
down more than once. You look at the lug
gage. which is all right; the pOrtmanteau
strapped behind the shafts in front, the
smaller articles slowed away in the well, and
the wraps arranged to form a rest for your
back
Then you look curiously at the driver, who
is to be your guide and companion, and
though you may pride yourself on your
powers as a physiOgnomist, you can surmise
very little about him. Time and your at
tempts at conversation will tell Possibly he
is stupid, silent or morCse, but the odds are
that he bTightens when you speak, and shows
himself a brilliant cOnverSatiOniSt Unless
it be involuntary and unconsciously, he is
seldom droll, but he processes to have any
amount of local information at your service.
1t will not do to trust him too far, for rather
than appear to be at fault when he is queS-
toned he will draw freely on a fertile mag
nation. But discretion and your experience
should keep you tOlerably straight if you are
not getting up facts with a purpose. Then
'unbeknOwnst to himself" his talk will be en-
livened by bulls, and with quaint turns of
expression that are richly racy of the soil
And talking of the soil and the scenery,
though we have left the scenery chiefly to the
guide books, you may have any variety Of
both IN the course Of one long days drive;
bleak bog and barren moorland; strips of
deep though rather swampy meadow land,
stretching along some peat colOred stream;
col, or gap, as they locally call it, which
means tight ft for the road in some depres-
sion between the shoulders of the lofty purple
hills and then a rapid descent into some fer
tile strath where the swift, clear salmon
river Is hurrying Stewards, breaking over the
rocks and the banks of gravel, under the foil
age of feathering woods that surround a
home-liIe mansion in its home fields. An
other and sitter pull up to another of those
"gaps," and as you top the crest of the steep
ascent and look out across a broad table land
Of swamp and pool and heather you feel the
fresh sea breezes tanning your cheek and
know that you can be at no great distance
from the ocean. The road keeps well clear of
the coast, for the coast line breaks out and
inwards in sheltered bays and storm-lashed
headlands But it is worth while pulling up
at the nearest accessible point and making a
pilgrimage on foot along the rough tracks Of
the turf carts to have peep over the brink
of the land line And there in North Done
gal, or any one of the wild western counties,
you may look down over the dizzy edge Of
the beetling cliffs, where the great gulls are
dwarfed to swallow SIZE over the waves
breaking silently far beneath you; while to
the right and left stretches cape beyond cape,
as they have been mined and followed from
time immemorial by the pillows of the Allan
tic-Alexander Innis Shand in BlackwOods.