The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-05

cry; either route of the Vermont Gen. tral from Bellows Falls, going by Wind sor, White River Junction, and Mont pelier or over the Rutland division via Burlington, and more pleasant and delightful trip is hard to find within our borders; while the expense Is with in the reach of all, if round trip tickets are purchased,
 The latter route is generally preferred by members of certain club, owing not only to scenery; but feminine at- fractions at Rutland
 Either way the gigantic old moun- tains seem to shut you in from the busy world and turn your thoughts to restful and pleasant reveries. But all about it is told on the beautifully
 illustrated and descriptive guide book issued by the railroad company, copies
 of which can be had gratis by writing to the Vermont Centrals office; and
 the hundreds of New Haveners who
 have travelled over these routes and the
 many families from here who spend
 their summers in that region will bear
 me out in all the praise I can give of
 the beauty of the scenery along these lo0eS9. AAG ACph CllbltlGN
 Homes Among the Green Hills of Yer
 mont and Along the shores of Lake Champlain.''
 You strike the old Winooski river just above Randolf, winding down through glen and ravine. over falls and cascades until 1t reaches the shores of Cham plain. You arrive at Essex Junction at about p, m and your railroad ride will end at St. SAlbans, one-half hour later, and by 1O:30 you are nicely landed at your home. To describe lakes and isl- ands and surroundings, with the old 1 Adirondacks looming up from the far western shores, takes more of novice than the writer to fully picture And now for fishing! Was there ever anything like it?
 While men and women often inherit tastes of different characters, fishing only becomes perfect by experience and ] practice.
 | It Is all right to applaud the young ster with his alder staddle and cotton ] twine line, etc; it is certainly amusing | to watch him at the sport as he baits l his hook from the contents of spice
 box or. a less improvised receptacle for
 the stupid worm. As that is the only
 bait known to this rural youngster, gen.
 erally he is keen observer and apt
 scholar in this line. Every pool and ed 1 dy is known to him, while the big fel-
 low, as he usually terms him.. is skep- tical as to his freedom until the boy has 1 gone some distance down the stream
 At the same time our youthful are re- l ally not in it.
 | For an expert gets more pleasure than simply immediately yanking his majes. | ty from his watery home. With a seven ounce rod, sa three-feet leader and twist l ed shell proceeds carefully to tire out and safely house him with a net; and there is certainly as much sport in the latter 1 method as there is difference in driving l a slow crone of an old horse against a l spirited and active one; and as for lake | fishing.
 1 He would find the crude tackle of old.
 CT times as valueless as fighting Indians with pop-gun.
 1 Ask the congressman, doctor, Kimber. l ly or the persistent Clark. the latter | who has been known to catch four. pounder off the grassy shoal of Pop I squash.
 ! This is Greek to most of you, but 1 clear to Clark.
 1 After viewing the scenery, hotel and surroundings the following morning af