Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-30
PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 1898.
NO TREsPAssING.

anu unuer the trees Elysium itself The
path ran through tunnel of foliage.
between which glimpses of the river
parallel We're every now and then he.
rayed by natural vistas. If you happen
70 know the road to Lonore before the
path to Ashness Bridge forks off, in
TACT the delightful stretch that lies at
Rakes' Foot you will have a scene like
to 1t as two peas are to one another, but
Tor Derwentwater you must, of course,
substitute the rapid, shallow, shingling
Barragh.
The road was inches deep in dust
and that of the whitest, and the boots
and stockings of the knickered, Norfolk
jacketed traveller could scarce be dis.
tinguished from the dusty way itself,
and he looked, had there been any to
see, as though he fioated in the air, be-
reft of feet and ankles.
Now, half way down the road, the
traveller, who was young and fairly
good looking, though perhaps not en-
lowed with that facial strength of char
acter which is the dear delight of au-
thors who are feminine, happened upon
a stile spanning the graystone and
messy wall that separated the wood be-
! yond from the road 1t was famous
stile, somewhat like pair of steplad-
ders, with three rungs by which to
ascend from the road and two to ascend
into the wood on the other side of the
wall. The traveller assembled, and perch
ed upon the happily placed platform at
the summit of the stepladder and pom
dered some, and while he pondered he
mopped his brow and gazed upon his
boots besides, giving the lie to those
who say that lone cannot do two things
at once'-this for one who has refused
to close the door at my behest and in
a draft most thorough. Then he struck
a match to light cigarette--I know it
ought to nave been pipe, but it was a
cigarette drawing it along an adj
jacent post saw, for the first time, a
notice thereon. 1t said:
ANY PERSON
FOUND TRESPA SsING ON
THE BARRY ESTATE
WILL BE SECUTED
By Order
Agents Office. j. SMITH.
A very ordinary notice, but one which
had been the subject of much merri-
ment while back, when 1" Airy you
Juggins" had eliminated the harmless
o and interpolated the direful E for the
amusement of his conspurs and con
freres.
The effect it had upon our traveller
was not that which henceforward, fol
all l care, may be described as de
faciensis tripperii. He had no desire t
drop in mot between the will" ant
the "be, " neither did he change "per
son" into peer" but he did allow hi
feet, which had been resting ON runs
two of the roadside ladder, to change
their position to rung one of that Of thu
woodside.
After the first step the way was easy
So appeared to be the grass patti
which meandered among the trees il
curves most sinuous, a path that looked
AS all forbidden paths look-seduc
tive, and moreover, by far the most de
| llBntful IN the wnOl6 district.
Our traveller looked at his watch, a
the up and down of the road. and not
soul was in sight to deter him. He slip
ped to the ground, and in brief spac
was in the thioket.
On and on pressed he till the black
ing was restored to the boot by the dus
banishing grass agency The cigarette
| hx, a
, and then he came to halt at the bIin
of cunning little tree mirrored, tire
surrounded lake, whose clear waters in
| vited-nay, almost communicative
mersion, with the thermometer take
to its utmost heat recording limits
Birds were singing the lakelet riI
pied, and with delicious splashing
waterfallet threw itself in wanton abaI
donment into the embrace Of the a.
, absorbing tarn.
! Delicious spot for bathing, but spC
! wasted impossible. On the farther sid
was one who gazed at our traveller, I'll
: intruder, with eyes beautiful and pr
yoked-one attired in kerchief of lawl
bodice and skirt of print and in oth'
dainty things
q "A pretty girl |" said he mentally.
;. "A wretched tourist I" she reflected
The path was winding, like to
a maze, but surely mazelike it led to Q
8 eventual goal? 1t would do no harm
y ask. The traveller meandered on al
q found himself in space but three
g four feet from my lady of the lake
n His cap was off.
o Said he, Twill you kindly tell me
this path comes out anywhere nei
J. Marleydale?'
= Eventually at the village itself,
n she replied.
4 He thanked her, and with steps +
q luctant would have advanced, but SD
% reddening and paling alternately, deni'
n him progress except over her litheson
d self.
,r "Please stopr' she commanded. "A
YOU aware that this is private prope
tyr"
81 could hardly imagine it was pu
r lie, " said he.
It She flushed angrily.
h "You are trespassing, she cont
l. ned, land are liable to be prosecuted
q. "And prosecuted, if the notice boa
ID lies not, p" he added.
So "The notice board does lie. Sor
ir tourist she began impetuously.
10 "Then | suppose am not trespa
80 L. Tod