The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-01-22

4. aid crowned the top OF one
mn hill in the Connecticut
~ The historic country of Gen.
and was proving, to condense
Au.iasm into three words, a
Paradise. The plan, long dis
n the family, had passed the
a.ond summer OF its infancy.
Z now firmly established. More
I - almost paying its running
Ms nay nothing Of the world
800 in it. Would we come
n the farm in all its autumnal
"a be convinced?
10 you really like it?" we quer'
docbtng Thomas and Thomas
- remote, you know and so
Our urban education would
6r.ish visions of murders and
nmps and rattlesnakes. We
almost read the headlines in
.v,papers setting forth the ia.
stalls
= H. said the girl. why. I just
z I'd be willing to stay all win
hadn't promised to go to Italy
y family. Now do come We
I'd this is the story the doubt
um To tell.
afternoon train from Boston
atus in two hours to the heart
Connecticut hills. Dust and
~ I'll the discomforts of a hot
lhe cars were forgotten when we
81 at the station and got our
Snth Of fresh, cool air. There
y girl smiling a welcome from
aftul old-style wagon, a cross
"a wheelbarrow and a landau.
With purchases from the coun-
Il h the neighboring town.
came an Introduction to the
Calico, a curiosity that we had
u recognized as a horse, so weird
nusual her coloring. isn't she
kr said the girl, going on to ex-
hat Calico was an orphan, a
abandoned" horse as it were,
NJ although her whitey-blue eye
wicked 1t was Offset by a good
heart. An awkward tendency
merely indicated friendliness,
We went a bit slow it must be
the fact that poor Calico lad
ltllly dined off popcorn instead
y ct the fair, and was not feel
y four miles from the station to
m, called by its mistress Top
and EVERY bit W hill" Four
miles, as strange to Thomas and
sine, as the wilds Of Timbuctoo
Il Of the lands once purchased
Palmer, in Revolutionary days,
i Palmer who owned German
md the great saw works on the
u Quincy Bay, Massachusetts,.
don't you think it's glorious?"
girl as we began the first as
- the beautiful country opened
Arms to receive us. We did.
IT looks like Scotland" said
ne, who loved the British Isles
Anglo-maniacal fervor.
IA revelation to find such seem
{bonecticut, and the girls eyes
Nth pleasure at our praises.
nay, tumbled the hills, blue
- and gray and yellow, a
Nfure. which ever way we
Ihe marshalled rows of tidy
J sent US their sweet, farm
- we passed, often over
\ TIE heavier perfume of the
1pes that draped the roadside
stone walls. Sometimes the
= vas shut out as the ever
! rad wound through a bit OF
NTH messy stones and great
q ferns; again dazzling our
- looked out over level pas
d aslds Of buckwheat or fodder
II soil itself was warm and
~ different from the thin
81 New Hampshire's stony
- "a not care how long Cal.
3 for that four miles.
uers great clumps Of the
- genetian. and gorgeous
Timing the waterways with
-. and to supply the last
Md in the picture the CLINT
y pumpkins on the brown
~ New England at its fair
Aex England which never
~ on the heartstrings, how
~ children stray not great,
erfully lovable.
! knew you'd like IT," said
"a cheeks pink and her pref
ruined with the breeze. "See
epple year it's going to be!
squeeze up here! Go on
Calico, and stop eating
=; that's poison ivy, If you
~ ut. I bought six whips
= mir today; a man was SELL
eae added. Il thought I'd
0Y IN. No1iuo IN Tho and