Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-14
EXPERIENCES ON HER
 100 MILE WALK
Woman Who Led Cow to Norwich
 Tells of Her Trip.

Since her return to her nome Tn Southbury, Conn.,, from which point Norwich. where her son Is 8. patient. Mrs. Lillian T. Richards has narrated her experiences on the 100 mile trip. She valued the COW at S15, but pr. John J. Donahue paid her Ss9, for it, also allowed her for her fare back and said she might have the calf. Mrs. Richards says:
 Before I started I tied two large grain sacks together. then filled them with hay which had run through the cutting box together with 20 pounds of meal another suit and an extra pair of shoes for myself. Then we were ready for the journey, which we began early Labor day morning.
 By noon we had gone from South bury to Middlebury. The COW rested that night in O.. c. Osborn's barn, East Main street, Waterbury. The steep Southington mountain we had crossed before 10 o'clock and when we reached the railroad crossing we found exten- sive improvements.
 That day when resting three tiny girls, the eldest not yet six years old, came out to visit me. In her childish prattle she. said, "Oh, must tell you the doctor brought us a new baby one day last week." and she measured with her tiny hands the length
 "A little sister?" I asked. Yes" she said.
 "Is not that lovely?" I replied. The next moment she said, My mamma was buried last Saturday" Surely your papa will care for you?" I said. She said: My papa died two months ago." 1 Then I asked, ''who cares for you Priscilla, Aunt Priscilla" I milked a pitcher of new milk and sent it in for the orphans. That night I stayed with a widow on West Main street, Meriden, and we had covered over thirty miles of oul | journey. In Meriden was Inisdirected. Al
 Barnes Bros., beautiful nursery I saw young apple trees, hundreds of thou sands of them about five feet high also peace trees. the same height. | followed the telegraph lines till I came | to the hospitable farmhouse of MT Anthony, where we were very kindly entertained.
 As we passed on some three miles | through the gap, we saw the churches | then the beautiful land of fruit; peach es and orchards both sides of the roat | with every variety. Presently we cam, i to an artificial lake with beautiful pond lilies sleeping so sweetly on it: waters like the dewy breath of a sweet | sweet morn. or a tender vesper prayer l WGp bu.W gmS eOddSa1d, ,dZ- nwk' 1 Wednesday night we were enter | tained at hospitable farm. Thurs | day noon we lunched at the Portland | bridge, then through the Westcheste l bridge finally taking a dreary, 1onel. road where we saw another lake witl l more of those lovely pond lilies. w | were entertained that night by Mrs | Melbason.
 l Friday night we. stayed on the edg of Colchester and Saturday night a l 8.30 o'clock arrived at Dr. J. J. Don l ahue's sanitarium. having made tn l journey of over a hundred miles in si days, which meant more than sixteel miles a day, leading a fve-year- ol | new milch COW.
 l My son has been cared for at tfi
 fine sanitarfuIn since May 21, 191; | where he has steadily improved The railroad charge for the COW wa $19, but as the price of the COW wa going towards the expenses of my Sor
 I decided to go afoot.
 Truly Connecticut is famed for tn hospitality of her people. Early Fri day morning I found q fine basket c | for. I carried the milk pail strappe
 on the cows back, leaving the mil
 night and morning for our lodgint
 She averaged, eight and one-hal
 quarts to a milking. seventeen quart | q day.
 While passing through Meriden,
 met a party of young people who re Quested me to allow them to take tn
 picture of the COW and myself, a. cop of which accompanies this article.
 found the landscape very differer
 on the east side of the Connecticu
 from this side.
 LILLIAN E PICEJApOS