The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-10
AMONG THE VERMONT HILLS.
Very Pleasant Vacation i'm n Very
 Pleasant Place.

A Very Pleasant Vacation i'm u Very | Pleasant Place.
 To the Editor of the Journal and Courier Waking early this beautiful morning,
 before the city was astir, and listening
 to the birds beginning their first open | ing concert, carried my mind back to a month l spent last summer in the lit-
 tie village of Quechee, nestled in among
 the hills of Vermont. Out of the numer-
 our places we had been considering for a months outing and rest, we had, at last, decided on this little country place, not very we'll known to the world at large-not at all known to us, at that
 time, but because the time had come to
 decide on some place, and one friend
 who had been there a day, wrote
 Come here if possible. You will like it."
 How well 1 remember our starting off
 that bright morning; full of hopes, but
 fearful lest some disappointment, either
 in place, or people, be our lot.
 Taking the white mountain train at
 10:53 a. m. we had a pleasant ride in
 the cars up through Hartford and
 Springfield, and on through beautiful
 country lying along the Connecticut
 river and arrived q little after o'clock
 in the afternoon, at White River june
 ton, where we changed cars and then
 rode about nine miles with d very de-
 lightful panorama spread out before us on either side and after crossing a deep gorge in which lay water many feet be- low us we finally stopped at the little station of Quechee.
 We had been told we would be met at the train, but our fondest hopes had at best prepared us for nothing more pre- tentious than a one-horse country turn out As we alighted at the station our eyes first fell on fine team of horses harnessed into a most comfortable looking two seated surrey. We dream ed not that this was for us, so after get ting our friend, who had come to meet us we began to look about for some conveyance that was more likely to have come from the farmhouse to which we were going. To our surprise we were introduced to the gentleman holding the pair, and found he was our host. Having left our checks with a young man who was to follow with our franks and wheels we were soon speed- ing along the road with our eyes on a sharp lookout for the home in which we were to spend a month. More than one surprise it seemed was in store for us, for, unlike some boarding places we have seen, a home indeed it proved to be, and our host and his family we z with kind hearts-people whom we were proud to make our friends. How well | I remember the very kindly greeting we had from our hostess, who received | us more as if we were her guests than | 1nly summer boarders. She was one of | those rare, quiet, gentle women whom | one learns to appreciate more and more | IS the acquaintance progresses.
 Two daughters graced the home. The | older about IS, lovable girl who was lot only an ornament in the home, but | real help, with a sweet voice, | which we learned to hear, and admire | irst in the choir of the church, where
 he sang, with her father, on Sunday l md having once heard we begged to l lear again. The younger child, fair laired girl of six, was the pet of the whole household.
 The house was a large, red brick, looking farmhouse, in good epair, made in the old style with rooms n either side of the front hall, and vide piazza extending across the entire ront of the house. There was but one ther house in sight, except long dis ance off, unless you ascended a hill here you could look down into the cen CT of Quechee, and also see the river | mich ran through the center, and fur ished power for the factories where hey made fiannels.
 One rather singular fact in connection , 'ith my story, was that at the time I as there, with but one exception, the ntire party boarding in the farm ouse were from either New Haven, f ast Haven or West Haven, though |, ,veral of us met for the first time up ,
 that quiet little village in Vermont. ', aving this bond of union to begin ith, though we met there as strangers, e very soon became as one family < One united, happy family. Even the n me exception" we were all only too . ad to adopt not only because her o ,me had once been in New Haven, but q -en without this strong point In her vor, her pleasing manners won our |, arts. q An! didwe not congratulate each other fl