Wichita eagle., 1886-09-18
A JAuNT m iH-tkND,
With Every Variety Of Scenery in th
Course Of tho DaH'a Drive.

With Every Variety ef Scenery in tho
Course OF tho Days Drive.
II the day be fine their can be no difficulty
in Ireland Of shaking on iupcrtunate
thought should you be neither landlord, land
car over night at $50, 50 by 10 you ought to
find it ready packed and waiting for you.
Naturally, you first cast a glance at tho
horse-an understood animal, who looks as if
he could go, as indeed he can, although he has
no neck to speak Of, and has probably been
down more than once. You look at tho 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 rest for your
back
Then you look curiously at the driver, who
is to 10 your guide and companion, and
though you may pride yourself on your
powers as a physioSnomist, you can surmiSe
very little about him. Time and your at
te,npts ut conversation will tell Possibly he
is stupid. silent or morose, but the odds arc
that he brightens when You speak and shows
himself q brilliant conversational. Unless
It DC Involuntary and unconsciously, he is
seldom drcli, but he processes to have any
amount cf local Information at your service.
1t viii Ict do to trust him too far, for rather
thar, -. .,c1r to be at fault when he is ques-
! tiono! he VIII draw freely on a fertile imaS-
ination. But discretion and your experience
should keep You tolerably straight If yea are
not getting up facts with purpose. Then
'unbel;noy.,lst to himself his talk Will lie ci-
livenei b. bulls, and with quaint turns cf
expression t,,at are richly racy of the sell.
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 colorcd stream; &
col, or gap. as they locally call it, which
means tight fit 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 seawards, breaking over the
rocks and the banks of gravel, under thc foil
age of feathering woods that surround a
homelike 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 cut across 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 dashed
Eeadlands But it is worth while pulling up
at the nearest accessible point and making a
| pilgrimage On foot clong the rough tracks of
the turf carts to have q peep over the brink
OF the land line And there in North Done
| gal, or sny One ot the wild western counties.
| you may look down over the dizzy edge of
| the beetling cliffs, where the great gulls are
tiwarfed 10 swallow sic, over the waves
breaking silently far beISath you; while 10
the right and left stretches cape beyond cape,
as they have been mined and followed from
time immemorial by the billows OF the Allan
| tic-Alexander Innis Shand in Blackwood,s $