News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-03
Vacation Notes.

LIE question WOulu puzzle many, II
not most people if they were required
to give a straightforward answer.
We get tired of what we are doing
and straight-way we take vacation,
howl by staying at home or in some
pleasant place near it and resting the
tired hand and the halting brain ?
by no means, we pack up bag and
baggage and start for pastures
new" by the mountain or the sea or
in the country or even to other lands
as the case may be; we ride, not quiet
ly and restfully, but by the swiftest
train day and night alike until we
reach the desired haven and then
rush into rest by seeing all our
strength will allow and when our
wearied bodies fail imagine the rest.
So your humble servant havingfOl-
lowed The avocation of a Govern
ment tramp" faithfully for eleven
months and being wearied thereby
started out for rest, having travel
ed from one thousad to fifteen hundred
miles month for aforesaid eleven
months as business ne at once begins
his pleasure by a little ride of some
eight hundred or more miles.
But, even to an old tramp, there
are some trips that though old are
ever new and one of them is up the
valley of the Saco through Crawford
Notch and, still following the set
ting sui across the eastern and west
ern forks OF the Green Mountains
down the Lamoille and Missisquoi
valleys to the borders of beautiful
Lake Champlain.
There is such a constant change of
natures panorama spread before you
now bit of intervale with the espark-
ling river, again the rugged granite
foothills with their wierd shapes and
then the grandeur of peaks against
the sky that the eye does not weary
of it.
The morning threatned rain but af-
ter passing BarClett the sky bright
ened and while the noble ckieftain re-
fused to uncover his head to ourview
his followers. were more kindly and
the fleecy clouds which sometimes
gathered around them only added
beauty to the scene as the train
wound its way through the upper
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new.
A fellow passenger, from Europe
and who had seen many lands, was
enthusiastic in his praise of the ma
iestic grandeur of the mountains, the
beauty of the silvery rivulets down
the mountain side, now flashing into
light and now lost in the deep green
of the forests which surround them
and the bits of cultivation seen from
time to time as we go upward but
these views so often seen only bring
a mild response from one so familiar,
truly nature like the prophet, "is
not without honor in her own coun-
try"
One thing in the strangers praise
is not forgotten however, and that is
aremark in reference to our fellow pas
sengers that Sin Europe no such
number of apparently working people
could be found riding in a car with
out hearing more of profanity and
vulgarity than heard there" and
still again his remark, 81 had been
led to expect that in this country [
should hear a great deal of provin-
cialsm in the speech of the common
pc )ple, but l have found the English
of the people in this part of America
very good indeed and showing very
high average of intelligence and edu-
cation, so very different from the dit
ferent sections of Great Britain where
stranger would hardly be able to
understand their dialect" This was
praise indeed coming from an unex-
pected source, the speaker being q
clergyman evidently of good educa-
tion and using his eyes and ears.
| But while we have been cOnyersing
we have reached and passed the" Gate
of the Mountains and the most
beautifully situated, if not the most
pretentions, hotel on the route, the
Crawford is before US with the mar
row divide separating the waters of
the Saco from those of the AmanOO-
sue.
Away across the country again to
the Connecticut and then in" Green
Old Vermont" her sons wherever
they may be never tire in singing her
praises when abroad, albeit many OF
them are prone to fOrsake her pas
lures for those which are broader il
not more green.
Again climbing, but now the hills
are verdant to their very tops and
now down again into the valley OF
the Lamoille winding in and out with
its waters flashing in the western sun
and on through natures path, for the
railroad through the western fork OF
the chain and across to that tribu-
tary of the Missisquoi that has nc
parallel in its level course in the riv
ers of the State until we reach the
river and follow it to our lovely
Champlain, where this screed shall
end with another remark uttered in
the writer's hearing on this vacation
bv another native of Europe, and o.
Old England too:
"Why Americans should go abroad
to see wonderful natural scenery wheI
they have the finest in the world il
their own land is beyond my compre
hension. | have seen the best O
European scenery but nothing tha
EQUALS what can be seen in Americ,
outside of it," why indeed.
But | have spent the first da!
of my vacation and the tired body j
ready for sleep.
| Good Looks