Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-19
A SUMMER OUTING

, home while we were away. Some friends
permitted us-to occupy a nice four-room
cottage that was empty at that time
They also let us have a COW to milk
and made US feel perfectly welcome 10
all the good apples, grapes and peaches
we could use. The children were awake
so early the day we were to go that L
was reminded of Christmas morning.
! We were up, packed and off long before
davbreak The distance was about mr.
teen miles, but the mountain roads were
rough and steep. 1t was too warm AIT
er the sun was up TO drive fast, so we
did not reach our destination until
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
| couldn't go to sleep until late that
first night, the old faithful dog barked
and barked.
| knew it could not be any one pass
ing TO cause him to bark, for we were
some distance from a public road.
No "booger" would come, so just
Ilay there and imagined how many bad
things could happen to us before day
light.
But the worst and only reasonable
thing I could truly think could happen
WAS that some one might take acute in
digestion after eating such hearty
supper, and we were eight miles or
more from the nearest doctor. we
hadn't needed any medicine an such a
time that | didn't think to possess any
medicine except some turpentine for IN
sect bites.
You see. nv trouble was like lots of
trouble in this world; it was unneces-
sary. | should have Gained my nerves
by thinking of the more. pleasant things.
Then | could have slept just as l did
the following. nights.
o5crt1E los a W.
but I was so tired when l went to the
mountain I didn't care. I didn't want
to talk, read or write. | didn't care
for any mail. Yet the mountain air,
with it's wonderful restorative power and
the cool and restful nights, made me
feel quite different.
30 me the mountains have always
been full of grandeur. / love the great
scenes of nature and the graceful little
squirrels as they jump from limb to
| limb, the songs Of the birds. the wild
flowers, the ripping brooks, the sturdy
trees, the high cliffs, the great water
falls, with first it's deep blue water
splashing and hurting, then see the same
water as it flows so gently only a few
inches in depth over almost solid rock.
Yes, the picturesque scenes of the
mountain have a peculiar charm for
me.
Just a short distance to the rear of
the cottage was a fine spring, walled
with rock and also covered. There was
a beautiful holly bush which shaded il
and hanging from the shelter of the
spring was wire with hooks on the end
to hang milk and butter to keep them
| cool
We did not cook out doors for there
was a spacious fire place in the cottage
with an iron bar fastened in the CHM
ney with a hook on the chain for any
thing you wanted to cook.
1 am sure / never ate any vegetables
as good as the vegetables that were
! cooked slowly hanging over the Goals
made from bark. We had the best oven
baked potatoes, and the most delicious
! baked apples, and the squirrel Drowned
on the fire was almost too good to talk
about We ate out in the shade of the
| trees and enjoyed it much more than
| If we had been in the house.
! There was a beautiful spring about a
| quarter of a mile away and we had
been told that drove of the well known
mountain turkey, went there for water
We were so anxious to see wild turkey
that we went there several times in the
| morning, but never found them More
| than a mile away was pretty creek
and we would go there to wade. There
| is some thing enticing about the clear
mountain water that will make you want
| to go in and splash around | will also
admit that there is something disagree
| able about squrmy spring lizard
| when you step on one, but they do not
! bite.
The nearest church was about three
! miles away and the only way to get
| there was to walk, but we were anxious
/ to go and after reaching there l felt
! well repaid. They sang the sweetest
songs l ever heard. l don't know wheth-
| er they were new or old songs but they
were new to me. They sang without
! the organ and it was good to see the
| young men lead. After having good
sermon we were rested enough to again