The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03
NO TRESPASSING.


the river parallel were every now and then be-
trayed by natural vistas. If you happen to
know the path to Lonore before the path to
Ashness Bridge forks off, in fact the delightful
stretch that lies at Rakes' Foot, you will have
a scene like to it as two peas are to one an
other, but for Derwentwater you must, of
course, substitute the rapid shallow, shinglng
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 distinguished from the dusty way it
SELF and he looked, had there been any to see,
as though he foated in the air, bereft of feet
and ankles.
Now, half way down the road, the traveller,
who young and fairly good looking,
though perhaps not endowed with that facial
strength of character which is the delight of
authors who are feminine, happened upon a
stile spanning the graystone and messy wall
that separated the wood beyond from the road.
1t was famous stile, somewhat like a pair of
stepladders, with three rungs by which to as
cend from the road, and two to descend into
the wood the other side of the WALL The
traveller assembled and perched upon the hap
PLY placed platform at the summit of the step
ladder and pondered some and while he pom
dered he mopped his brow and gazed upon his
boots BESIDES giving the lie to those who say
that zone 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 match to light cigarette-I
know it ought to have been pipe but it was a
cgarette-and drawing it along an adjacent
post saw for the first time, notice thereon. 1t
said:
ANY person found trespassing on the Barry
estate will be persecuted.-J. Smith.
A very ordinary notice, but which had
been the subject of much merriment while
back, when Z" Arry-you-J uggins!" had elimi-
mated the harmless o and interpolated the
direful E for the amusement of his consoeurs
and confreres.
The effect it had upon our traveller was not
that which henceforward, for all l care, may be
described as defaciensis tripperii. He had no
desire to drop in mot between the "will'' and
the be- neither did he change person. into
peer" but he did allow his feet, which had
been resting on rung two of the roadside lad
der, to change their position to rung one Of
that of the woodsde.
After the first step the way was easy. So ap-
peared to be the grass path which meandered
among the trees in curves most snuous, path
that looked-as all forbidden paths look-se-
ductive, and, moreover, by far the most de-
lightfu in the whole district.
Our traveller looked at his watch, at the I'D
and down of the road, and not a soul was in
sight to deter him. He slipped to the ground,
and in a brief space was in the thicket
On and on pressed he till the packing was
restored to the boot by the dust banishing
grass agency. The cigarette, smoked out was
replaced by a second, and then he came to a
halt at the brink of cunning little tree m r.
rored tree surrounded lake, whose Gle ar waters
invited-nay, almost Observation-Disclosures
with the thermometer taxed to its utmost heat
recording limits
Birds were singing, the lakelet rippled, and
with delicious splashing a waterfallet threw it.
self in wanton abandonment into the embrace
of the all absorbing tarn.
Delicious spot for bathing, but a spot wasted
impossible. On the farther side was one VIII
gazed at traveller, the intruder, with eyes
beautiful and provoked-one attired in ker-
chief of lawn, bodice and skirt of print and in
other dainty things.
"a pretty girl!" said he, mentally
wretched tourist!' she reflected
The path winding, like to a maze, but
surely mazelike it led to an eventual al? 1t
would no harm to ask. The traveller
meandered on and found himself in a space
but three or four feet from my lady of the lake.
His cap was off. Said he,
"Wil you kindly tell me if this path comes
out anywhere near Marleydale?"
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