The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-06

beside it Is the smallest post-office In
Massachusetts,. AT a liberal guess, the
Long pond post-ofllce is eighteen inch
es In height, depth and breadth, for Y
| is simply q letter box, at which every
one acts as his own postmaster. When
O. man goes to town, he takes the let
tiers left for mailing, and when he
leaves town for the lake he brings the
mail for the community, and leaves II
| In the box for each to help himself.
! There are no regular hours or even
| days for collections or deliveries, but
| that matters little to people who have
| painted their cottages dark green and
| hidden them in the thickets foliage
| that surrounds the pond. Myron w.
| Whitney, the singer, has q cottage near
| by, also Charles s. Davis, lawyer. T.
| A. Hatch, Howard Davis, Mrs. E'eSSen-
den and a few others.
GaIlows pond Is close by, and between
them at the turn Of the road is the lit
| tie one-story farm house which used to
be the home of Branch Pierce, the ia
NOUS hunter whom Daniel Webster was
| wont to visit. All the old settlers tell
| Webster stories, and the tree where he
would hang his deer is still pointed out.
They say also that Gallows pond gets
It's name, not on account of the men,
but the deer that We're hung there.
Gallows pond. which is much smaller
than Long pond, has the same beauti-
full beach and two or three cottages on
its northern border In the same group
is Halfway pond, which Is, on the
whole, the most characteristic of the
lot, with more varied scenery and a
wilder appearance From the saddle
back which separates them both ponds
can be SEEM and a glance shows that
Halfway pond Is at much lower lev
ell
But the thoughts of the amateur ex-
plorer were turned toward luncheon,
for the hour was late, and even glass
OF milk would seem q feast. Soon an
attractive little farmhouse was sight
ed, with three promising looking cows
grazing in the neighborhood The
ilouSe proved to be vacant, except for
colored boy who was gathering togeth-
er some old iron, and explained the ut
Ter impossiblllty Of getting milk there.
Nearby was the family graveyard OF
the King family where lay William
Mig, WHO was ooin Ia iNeNolal 'O''A
Tunes, Inc pose-o'lce ol 'ayliioiii
promised much, seeming like an oasis
In the desert, but the best the genial
official could do was birch beer off the
ice and bareback.
fostflas'eF hayiliohu Saiu tiat aeei
had come within half a mile Of his
house earlier In the season, but he
thought there was small chance of get
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wadlng across shot so many that the
water became red with blood. or vice
versa It Is singular example of the
loose history Of the woods that the sto-
nv is told both WAYS. DESPITE It's SAN
culinary name Bloody pond Is a very
nfcturesu,,e body If water and walter
Reddnq Of Quincy noint Is building
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Martin van Buren Douglass lives on
the bank OF Halfway pond, In the mouse
where he was born He is road over
man of the neighborhood, and with
George g. Barker of Boston ana Dean
Briggs OF Harvard college, practically
the wnter front of the pond.
In past times, the home of Martin
Douglass has been favotite resort OF
EDOrtS1lpn and HIS brOt her. Warren,