New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-23
And we thought that one must have sleep as well

I newspapers. His whole aspect so benevolent
that we asked ourselves if it could be that he
was keeping that position just because 1t was Il
good position And when did he sleep. and
when did he cat?
This being morning, and the train for MI.
Washington having started, men were ont III
| thick overcoats with spy glasses in their hah"S
| looking at the mountain, the engrossin2 question
| being when the ascending train could be seen
| Finally the column of white smoke became
visible, slowly creeping higher and higher bu'
| the clouds had settled down over the tops OF the
mountains
| 1t was then that we strolled OF by the Am
monoosuc, having first ascer;ained that the od
| gentleman was still in the best chair. and tha'
| the outside world. who could not have the best
chair. We're being as resigned as possible
You who have walked beneath these noun
tains and by this river will know what the
scene is in the brilliance of October sunlSh',
and you who have not done so cannot be 'olu
| by words.
1t was then also that Fabyan Joined us By
Fabyan I mean large mastn who walked IN
the leonne way which is the way OF mastills
up to us and requested the pleasure of cscoring
us He asked this so plainly that even person
who does not readily understand dog language
could not fail to understand this.
We were grateful for his company lie kept
with us for the next hour, going where we
went pausing where paused, and never once
trying to explain view or 10 give us any
instruction about anything. Was he not nearly
an ideal companion? Sometimes he would turn
his heavy black muzzlc toward us and was his
tail gently. He met several human friends WHO
| always said:
Hello, Fabyan,7 and he responded with
deuure tail shake lie would not leave rs. AMI
he fingered outside when we went within the
hotel as if he would remind Us that he was
glad he had made our acquaintance, ana ne
hoped for the pleasure of another walk but
we did not see him again. If anybody reals
this who knows Fabyan and who meets BIN
next summer if such person will put
erecting hand on his tawny head and SAY
! " Hello, Fabyan7 for me, | shall appreciate the
favor.
The season being over, there were not nearly
so many large men and women with heavy
faces and puffy cyelids walking about the hall
and piazzas There one woman, however
with an extensive. pasty face, and with
daughter who sat opposite The daughter
WAS what is generally called in "A deroeatory
manner ian old girl Fortunately she did not
| feel old ana She knew good deal NOR" th'h
her mother but she tried to he respectful
Thus. when the mother asked in a slow pompous
and general manner of the whole table if Mt
Washington were not the highest peak IN
Massa chusetts, the daughter said gently;
Not in Massachusetts,, mother
The elder turned impressively toward her Off
spring and repeated:
Il said in Massachusetts, Elizabeth as II the
matter and the fact were settled.
Then there were three women from the utter
most ends of 1.-THE cape" When, anywhere III
New England, you say the cape you always
| mean Cane Cod One Of these women was not
Young but she WAS giddy. On one occasion she
asked the circle assembled round the fire, with
the whlte-hared old gentleman in the best place.
| 70 guess how old she was She put the question
! individually to half a dozen OF us ana we all pre-
| tended to guess. after which She thanked us Tor
| the compliments we had given her, and told her
exact age. much older than any of the figures
mentioned of course. But am not going 10 tell
in an article that may he printed what she sald
her age was.
II will be seen that there were very few people
| AZ this time OF Mt Pleasant, and that the pecul-
| iarties Of these could be easily studied
| Our tickets tvrants which must consult.
allowed us TO stop over north OF plymouth II
was on our way home that We avaied ourselves
Of this privilege. And we took the afternoon
train. which ratified and dashed and swayed III
way that made US clutch anything we could reach
and that called forth few little screams here
and there A woman behind us hardly ceased
saving that she never did like to come down IN
the afternoon train, the engineer went 50. Shc
WAS coming down once when tho engineers WIG
was aboard, and she, the engineers wllc' just
hollcred and they all thought she would ialn'' 80
the bell had to be pulled for him 70 slack up
After this information had been repeated three
times my friend, in a brief intcr1nifsion IN 'hc
lurching Of the car asked If the engineer WIG
could not be persuaded TO ride every day on thS
rat
question would, IN that c8Sc' h"'o "' ' 80
sure as the world.
We stoned at Littleton, the hills of that
,ov,n having an attractive aspect from the rail
road.
am not going to tell the name of the hotel
but [ will say that it was the highest priceu
mentioned in the list in our guide book ana 1
will also say that the clerk was thc hosV iiohoS
sweet clerk that ever met anywhere, cI'her III
Now-IIampshirc or esewhere-in his MANNERS
mean.
The driver Of the hotel gave MS the lnorhia-
ton that we could have connecting rooms al :!
nor day This price would enable rs TO save
ii.tlc money it being special rate, ana nave
birtcd that one purpose Of this Journey was I"
sovo money We went up in the carriage, Il d'7-
lance Of perhaps a quarter OF mile. IL was TAIN
ing. but il stopped raining during the one day
we were there long enough for MS to have ahother
interview with the AmmonOosuc and TO hhh tliat
the enchanting river still retained the character
jstics which had belonged to it further up inc
maintains: and We went the hills ana looked
L., imam ,he toy,u and of upon the ranges
fran Which we had come. Coming back we
, strnpcd into little Episcopal church ana men
tally told our beads for the welfare oi eo'ne "i'
we loved. ,. ., ,bo bonov
sweet clerk TO pay our bills. always inale hcr
90 10 the clcrks-for various reasons not iecetSti!
- Give He charged 81 day and dollar lor
"concbjne" I}eing informed Of what MS dryer
had said Inc took OF dollar apiece. l'eIn2 asker
; what he meant By coaching, he said we lad fli-
den ND in the hotel carriage, and thgt whether We
ia 80 e e,roo, ali the time that NY friend sali