The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-18
Down Through the
Valley Journeys a
Worcester Man.
THEN THE BOSOM OF THE DEEP.
Tossed About Delightfully."-
For a Night and Then
in Boston Bay.

Kings County, N. s., Sept. 16.-Our
days in Kings were numbered.
There were still many places to be
seen and good-bys to be said, when the
last load of hay from the intervale was
stored in the barn at Centerville on the
Eaton farm. A rainy day gave us a
rest and an opportunity to read another
chapter of Pilgrims Progress, . and to
write little. Jack was at the bay
gathering Specimens" and a coat of
tan, so life was nearly extinct at the
NAPLES"
| An occasional breeze stirred the ma
pies, hen, livelier than her mates,
gave utterance to series of quawks as
an ambitious sister tried to monopolize
the feed-dish while the flock were at
! breakfast. The horses were away, the
cattle out Of sight, so that the Manson
and Griffin "washout" created a ripple
of excitement, and the croaxing of a
pair of ravens turning somersaults just
over the edge of the mountain, caused
a positive thrill of pleasure to pervade
our person Even the Singing" of the
locusts was a source of delight the
stiffness was so pronounced that we
could hear the mushrooms coming up
through the ground.
To escape this 1 took to the cars and
ran the gauntlet of four counties in one
day. l am too much of an old salt to
thoroughly enjoy a land cruise of such
dimensions, but there is always some
thing to see in this country, and hear,
too, if ones ears are open. Dreyfus,
Dom Paul Alaska boundary, etc. are
all in it. You know all about the go
llngS on of that trip by a former letter.
Going back over the same line, we
caught the tide in, and it looked very
pretty in its green franco moving pic
ture that Keith would find hard to re-
produce.
When we get back to BURBERRY sta
ton our conductor on the c. V. r.
wants to know" what house we are
travelling for. We kindly tell him that
we are travelling for the Eaton house.
and taking our grip strike a lively gait
IN that direction. We stop at Reuben's,
the corner store, to get our breath fixed
ana puy peppermint. Reuben keeps
a department store and the post office
we take the road to the Kinsman
farm, turn down into the driveway go
under the bars through the orchard. out
INTO the meadow, cross the brook that
starts away up in the Griffin meadow
whose every song, whisper. rnnryn,,r
gurgle and tinkle we have learned NV
heart when following it to its source
unuef the mountain. We enter tbA
pathway in the bit of wood that inter
Venes between the two farms. scare a
partridge that was enjoying a sun
1dtn IN the pathway, feel glad that We
In nave gun, for we were so start
Ieu II might have exploded wrong end
TO. We climb the boundary fences bar
ana ana baggage, and look down at the Ma
pres shlmmering in the sunlight
we don mind the quiet AT all now
y just suits US. We just sit out on tbe
piazza and watch little cloud on the
13u6e Vi the horizon-a cloud no bieear
than mans head 80 Oieset
4 The morrow was tho Sabbo.,
was at the door early and a 500 l,1'i'9y
breakfast was over Ward and I eot i,to
.he wagon and started. There uas
nay oag under the seat, also more or
less grub. We We're booked for AZ
6ookoH, and the camp meeting of tbe
AaVentlsts. It was delightful drive
lIe ar was cool and sweet and orr roali
ieu US by some of the large farms whera
49, o,s eaoPs ana solid comfort reigned SUI
oIiie some tlfne through white birch
/ grove Where every tree seemed doino he
pest 10 grow tall enough for hoonnoIe
IL taxes lots of hooppoles to sunnIv 49,
demand for apple barrels. to saw ,,otL
ing OF nsh barrels. We got on tha ode-a
u tne divide and looked back over tbe
ROAD. Dalsy was still doing a lively ioe
ana the picture was develonine Tls
road we had followed seemed going
a pS'un aTIoss country in pretty winding
~ oaIe eea luohI1g IKE Kaa pouring himself
across the plain to the relief of NTn,,.5S,t
The fences looked like the herrinebona
stltch across the greens and browns
patchwork of crazyquilt. while az
apple orchards took on the appearance of
tea plantations as distance dwarfed az
size'of the trees; but there was no MAJ
DARN in sight; not even a Iaundrvma,,
ward got out to walk, and I-weu M,
Lrlehd sald my weight would not count
SO guided Daisy to the left "as the law
directs" Up and up till we reached ~
hollow log watering trough. when Wsr6
got IN again, and geed up the beastie 70
the top OF the hill, where lots Of teams
We're tethered in the shade of trees
ROCK of ages, cleft for me-" comes
on the mountain air to greet us from
the little band of worshippers away out
IN the grove. We take Daisy into the
shade, put a hawser round her naol1
take couple of half-hitches roupd q
Dig tree, empty the hay bag under her
nose and stroll out to join the natives
we ma Mr. Blenkhorn at his new
mouse, which was full of people. IF he
mad bigger house 1t would have haar
run, too. What delightful spot for q
Dig motel. A grand outlook, easy of ac
cess, Just little way from Blornidon.
ana tlde water What a pity there are
! no LelandS here, was our mental az
| preston as we looked at the mushroom
building of our friend. He may do well.
but 1T is long look from five boardare
to five hundred. The Grand Hotel COM
| pany or Yarmouth may put up build
| Ing If they do, there will be no lack Of
visitors for nine months of the year
There is another bit of place where red
drinks and colored quartz are dispensed
rms place mas a tower. The landlords
name is Corkum
We We're introduced to the minister
He had been a department manager for
| Houghton & Dutton, a promoter in the
| northwest, and a missionary in a re-
mote section of Labrador, where mis-
sionaries are not appreciated by the
whites. Now he is settled down to the
ministerial calling in good earnest.
| The crowd grew, many people taking
advantage of the services of the day To
| give the family an airing; riding for
pleasure alone, Is not considered quite
the thing among church going peonle
of the valley Jasper and his wife were
up from Scots Bay, and had the plea
sure of meeting them again.
We drove back by the Woodside road
TO see the Crystal palace barn This
belongs to the Kinsman company, and
I will hold nearly the entire cut this year
400 tons, beside shetering 1850 head Of
cattle. horses and hogs. Two drive
ways of easy grade connect with the
loft. The feed boxes open to the roof
Your Watch Cleaned or DIV DOL
New Main Spring, I'D A.