The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-22

which Is far more beautiful IL New
England's mood is the criterion.
There is character in every little
bunch of tufted oak leaves on the
old English oak and there is the cour-
age of battle in every surrounding
protecting mountain, while content
ment is to be seen in the luxuriant
fields of grass or wheat, and happi-
ness in the little houses in the val
legs.
Even the Lion and the Lamb, that
bold mountain with its rocky repro
duction or anticipation of the time
when the end OF the world shall have
come does not look as peaceful as its
name indicates. The lion and the lamb
lay there together on the top. but
side by side, instead of inside the
other. Perhaps the lion was so sur
prised by the advent of the lamb that
he was petrified too soon, and so lost
the meal
Natures mood is heroic here, still
as we passed Wordsworth's grave in
the churchyard at Grasmere and his
home of mature manhood, a little lat
er, we remembered that he wrote into
verse all that birds and flowers, noun
tains and fields had shown to him in
this paradise Wordsworth seat
a huge rock with stone steps cut into
the side to the top. overlooking Ry-
dali lake or Rydall waters, as they
say. Poetry did not seem a difficult
muse to be wooed, but one to be won
almost for the asking. We did not
wonder that he sang of Nature and
her charms as we quoted softly
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are
bare.
Waters on a starry night
The sunshine is glorious birth
But yet | know, where'er | go,
That there hath passed away a glory
from the earth
AS even the longest road has a turn
ing, so even the most delightful ride
has an ending, so, after visiting the
smallest church in all England, Wyth-
burn, we drove soon after to the Kes-
wick Inn for luncheon, which was a
hurry-up one, for trains do not wait
here any more than at home and they
are seldom late when you are. 1t is
very picturesque to see the stage
coach whip up to the door, the four
horses coming up with dash, the
portly driver in his tall hat, bright
red coat and brass buttons, cracking
his whip and holding the reins high,
while the eighteen or twenty passen-
gers scramble down from their seats
on top. This scene is repeated every
few minutes, and time speeds by on
rapid wings.
The ride up into Scotland took the
Whole afternoon, and while it gave us
much the same mountain and vale
scenery, we had been having, it held
two surprises for us, the magnificent
purple coloring CT the fields and noun
tain sides as the heather was in full
bloom and the flooded district The
torrential rains of Sunday made all
the brooks, lakes and rivers overflow
until all along the way bridges We're
endangered, roads submerged and lit
tie houses in the hollCws were up to
their windows in water, and the cat
tie got to the high places. 1t was an
intere sting day, but from $50 a. M,
until p. m, is long enough, and
made rs not at all sorry to arrive at
"Darlings' Regent" at Edinburgh. Here
we found beds which were really com
Portable and food ttat might have
been cooked anywhere in New Eng
land-but was not.
Edinburgh is an attractive city, easy
to get about in, clean and wholesome
as well as finely located and much
adorned. 1t is really two cities; lis
old part with Holyrood and the Cas-
tie separated from the new part with
its churches, schools, hospitals ant
aristocratic residences by the deep ra,
! vine called Princess Park.
! The new part, with its wide ant
regular streets branching off from
Main or Princess street, gives the
city distinction all its own. Thes,