Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-03

ANOTHER set OF marks, signifying "tried |
and found true" and expressive of some. !
what enthusiastic admiration, | tud along
the margin of passage in the long Break.
fast-talk on exercise and recreation, walking, |
horseback riding, and rowing. They were
undoubtedly made during vacation, or at
least soon atter when the mind was still
enjoying the exhilaratiou ot the recent ex-
perience. Let me quote the passage now ~
anticipatory OF what may be before some oi
us during the coming summer vacation
al dare not publicly name the rare joys,
the infinite delights, that intoNiCate me on
some sweet June morning, when the river
and Day arc smooth as a sheet of beryl,green
suk, ana run along ripping it up with my
knlie-edged shell of a boat, the rent closing
after me like those wounds of angels which
Milton tells oi, but the seam still shining tor
many long rood behind me. To lie still
over the Flats, where the waters are shallow,
ana see me crabs crawling and the sculpius
gliding busiy and silently beneath the boat
to rustic in through the long harsh grass
that leads up some tranquil creek-to take
shelter from the sunbeams under one of the
thousand footed bridges, and look down INTO
interminable colounades, Crusted with green
aud oozy growths, studded with minute
harnacleS, and belted with rings of dark
muscles, while overhead streams and
thunders that other river whose every wave
is human soul lowing tO eternity as the
river below flows To the oCean-lying there
mOored unseen, in loneliness so profound
| that the columns of TadmOr IN the Desert
could not seem more remote from liie-tho
| cool breeze ON ones forehead, the stream
| whispering against the half suuken pillars
| why should | tell OF these things that
| should live to see my beloved hauuts in
| vaded and the waves blackeued with boats
| as with a swarm of water-beetles1 What n
city of idiots We must be not to have covered
this glorious bay with goudolis and wherrles
| as we have Just learned to cover the ice ia
| winter with skates
Nor many OF us will have the chance to
enjoy the pleasures described on Boston bay,
or on any other bav. But there are few of us
who cannot do a great deal better than that
We can stay at home and go boating as often
as We please ON our own Couestoga. And
there is not finer stream for the purpose in
the country-fpr day of quiet, restlul Goat-
ing and rocking on the water in the cooling
shade Of overhangIug trees aud bushes
amidst the soothing rustliug OF waves and
grasses and Chirping of insects and birds
no, there isn't better place than right here
| at home.
| II we want to make the enjoyment perfect
We need only take with us on our home
vacation trips copy OF the books from
which have been quoting The Autocrat, o
the Professor, or the Poet at the Breakfast
Table. They are just the kind of reading
one wants at such time. In fact, il l wer
to make a list of books for summer-reading
| would put them very near the head
though have never before seen them pu
! on such lists at all. That doesn't sgnif
| much however. For neither are ThOreau'
, | works TO be found on them, nor Burroughs
| nor Warmers, nor Bret Hsrte's: and We
T where in all the language are there to b
found books as delightfully."- adapted an,
; charmingly appropriate, i'll subject, style
tone and everything else as just these, t
take along into the woods or TO the shore
and to laziy read and enjoy under the shad
, of the green trees, or TO the murmurin
accom- paniment OF the musical waves y
long as can get any of these, / know that
, shall never take many others To rea
, them over once year Is not too much; 70
every year they give fresh delight an
charm anew. They improve with ever
repetition, and grow more interesting eac
year-as indeed all really good books mus
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