Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-22
AMERICAN LETTERS,

igation. Appropriate TO this difference,
perhaps, Rutland has flourishing trade
in marble whilst Burlington is mart
for lumber. Both cities have fairly rep
resentative hotels, one noted for its ex-
cellence, the other for its civilty. As a
landlord we think Mr.. Drew excels any
in Vermont, but in the livery we shall be
inclined to give the prestige to the Bard
well House.
Tuesday evening had occasion to use
a single horse, very good large fellow,
brown, by Aldrich's Morgan, and We'd
nesday morning | had another to drive
two miles to the farm of Smith Kelly,
gray Morgan mare, by Highland Gray.
New fields of inquiry were opened by
this visit to Mr.. Kelly, so we returned to
Rutland, exchanging the Highland Gray
mare for pair of brown Morgan-built
animals of $50 lbs. weight each, and with
a not very good carriage to match, for it
is in the horses that The Bardwell livery
eXcels rather than carriages, and with a
driver that proved himself well adapted to
drive and take care of team, we started
on longer trip, going first to West Rut-
land, thence to Clarendon and Tinmouth.
The drive to West Rutland is a pleasant
one. Here we made short interviews
with blacksmith and a druggist and
drove to Erastus kelly's in Clarendon.
The part of Vermont that we now en-
tered is mountainous, almost as much so
as the eastern part. The soil is gravelly,
the roads excellent; rivers pure and bab-
bling, fields green, and trees abundant,
although the spruce are nearly entirely
cut from the higher mountains that at
one time they must have thickly covered.
, We turned up quite hill to Mr.. Kelly's,
where we fed our team and had our din
. ner, making it a part of the interview.
although insisting upon paying regular
hotel rates. Everything was pleasant in
, the house and location. Good air, good
water and pleasant view go far to make
a comfortable home. Good cheer and
good company should do the rest, wheth-
er with a large house or small one.
Returning to the valley short driye
brought us to Clarendon Springs, where
/ is quite a showing for a summer hotel in
! three-story building of brick, with
double piazzas and number of cottages
: adjoining. Perhaps half mile beyond
we stopped at another farmhouse, a
small one in the valley, and again on the
, hills in Tlnmouth at a larger one, two
story and very neatly painted white
At both the men were out at work, the
first grating, the last in the field above
9 the house, planting. My driver, who
had great aversion to getting out, for
tunately had corresponding skill il
driving over stone walls and across fields
l. and was soon up this lot. y cool north
- wind blew across the plowed ground ant
the grass. 1t was at Tnmouth, | be
n lieve, that Sampson went to get wife
" Possibly that article was to be had here
:, now, but we saw no signs of it. w,
{ stood face to face with a well-made MAJ
e of nearly or quite threescore-years-an
ten. His excellent home stood below us
q TO the south, perhaps half a mile, was ;
e church and store, with several houses
all the village there is in Tnmouth. !
u deep-sunk basin of good width extends
! through here with corresponding higl
IS hills or mountains to enclose it. Som,
other houses are in sight. but they ar,
u not thick. The valley is largely o
swamp and woodlands, its best farms ly
i ing well up on the hills. One good fea
IT ture is noticeable throughout the valley
o fine sugar orchards. At the further end
4 on the opposite side of the valley, IN,
n friend pointed out where the old irol
l. works and ore bed were that many year
y ago were successfully worked here. Per
O haps it was his story that suggested t.
me dim resemblance between this local
IS ity and the mining regions of Mexico
Ii We now drove through the village an,
e beyond it turned to the right and by
Ir steep by-road scaled one of the noun
e tains that enclose the valley. 1t gave
~ more extensive view towards Rutland
}. including bit of the mountains beyond
n and then we descended into Dandy an,
;, Pawlet. Again the hills, again the val
q legs, again the spruce trees dark an,
!, threatening toward the mountain tops
re although no great amount of large one
, II remain. Again the brook. We stoppe,
a at several houses, at first small and plain
Is but as we entered the broader valley YER
e nicely built and painted. At Mr.. Amo
e Browns there were two long stable
- filled with cows, which they were milk
ing. Here, too, was cream-colore
d Morgan mare of the old Casol breed
{, which have been in the family since abou
1900. Before we reached Mr.. Brown
a. a snow-squall struck us, and soon mad
lie things winter than the Casol mare.
4 After leaving Mr.. Browns we stoppe
n at Mr.. Hulett's, 50 years old, and as i
il many cases where have visited the old