The Newtown bee., 1894-06-08
NEW PRESTON
SUMMER REVERIES.

Last Sunday afternoon was the first
 pleasant afternoon here, in sunshine and
 which we had not enjoyed in six days. AS we stood at the foot or the lake and looked up towards the Warren hills, or casting our eyes to the right caught glimpse of the rock cap of the Pinnacle and could faintly dis cern three or more figures thereon, or looking to the left on the hills and where the lake winds in to the cove towards Wilson hotel and out again past
 J. B. Burr's fine cottage, up to Cheerie
 Point and the Lakeside honse, all every
 way and in every direction looked finer
 than any picture could depict it and
 seemed to us one of the most delightful
 spots of natural scenery to be admired
 and enjoyed in the state. As we climbed
 the hill above the lake and stood at last
 on summit where we could trace al- most the entire length of this beautiful sheet of water, Lake Waramaug, with the surrounding hills so clearly mir rored in it's depths it seemed as though | from the daily toll and duty and routine we had been permitted to look into an- other element, soothing, restful and sub I lime but as we looked on those grand | old hills which encircle this lake at all points, and noted the dense green foliage l and the fiowery trees which now dot it l at UlllOEGub DOllbS UT lOLC bLlC IICAoo oohIAS of them like velvet in their grassy cov-
 ering, some of them smoothed and seed-
 ed for the harvest, and then to note the woods, the grateful shade trees l sprinkled variously and plentifully among all the fields where man and beast may rest and refresh themselves, and above all the blue skies canopy and
 the orb of day clothing all with warmth
 and peace, gliding the hilltop and the
 valley and glistening on the millions of nipples and tiny waves of the lakes sur-
 face, flashing brightly on the boat
 wake as it crossed the little span from
 shore to shore; as we viewed all this in the space of one minute of time we could but think of ''One who careth for the cattle upon a thousand hills' and our hearts with thankfulness and appre- citation was lifted for brief period from nature to natures God more impressive ly than many sermon has stirred us
 Nature at this season we consider the best sermOnizer and to none should Il
 leone with more beneficial effect, than to
 the laboring man after six days of toi
 and care. he comes to the Sunday which the commandment has said from the Icreation, "Rest." Now we are sorry tC
 write after describing such a happy
 communion with nature, that it is purely of our imagination. We know just how all these things looked and how w' should have felt if we could have seen but someUay Brother Smith has re , quired our correspondence to be sen , down to him as early as Monday of eacf ) week, probably that he may have ample time to decipher the "pigeon tracks, but many fair Sunday afternoon ha } thus been stolen from our leisure ant we have many times declared it to b. , nothing but vanity and vexation o 2 spirit to be classed among that thank 3 less and improbable company of woult be local reporters. So this afternoon = we have thought how blessed for thos g who can, to ramble like the goat owe these hills and bask in Gods sunshine 9 and appreciate this, the first beautiful - Sunday afternoon of the summer of '94