Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-01-24

ricks. the sheep all around. with their
long neeces hanging down so that they
almost touch the snow. can we'll SEQ
how they can stand the rigor Of the
climate. which by tho way In raw rather
than cold. The fires are about all In
CRATES or fireplaces raised a little from the
hearths and surrounded with a grating.
in which they burn soft coal that 10 SO
smoky, and with little heat In some
homes. / have seen tho fireplace about
three feet long and about one foot deep.
ono half Of which. the right side. was
given up to the fire, the left half up to
about IS inches, was a cute little box OF
an oven, In which all the baking is done
Imagine your mother cooking in an oven
that was only about IA inches square.
You'd lose weight, and perhaps. your
good spirits. I fear you would prefer
to cook over a camp fire. And the wood
here Is an admiration, II Ia 10 wet and
green. miss the American woods that
Will burn even green. There Is very
little maple save what is set out for shade
along tho roadways. I fear you will
have hard time trying to keep these
two countries separate. Scotland and
England but am now writing Of Scot
land. England is so different. My what
time I will have showing you the
photos that have collected from others.
am afraid to take very many as you
know, you don't know when you can and
when you cannot. And somehow I am
willing to submit to all they ask. for who
knows what damage might be done, X
everyone were allowed to snap as they
wanted. though there is a great hunger
in my heart to bring back some of the
ideal little English, green ivied homes
that are as though they were cut out of
frame and dropped. Truth is not only
stranger than fiction but 1t Is far more
beautiful. when you speak Of the truth
of these English landscapes. One Of these
days am going to write you bit about
st. Paurs Cathedral as saw 1t about
week or SO ago. There Is one thing
that strikes one from New York as SO
strange, In fact even tahough you came
from the Queen City. you would be sur
prised not to find a building. as large. I
mean high. as Abernethy's or the Richard
son Block. to say nothing Of Hotel VT.
or the other hotels. The talk is almost
sceptical, when they tell you that some
said you had to look right UP to see
the top OF building and they tell you
In such a quiSzical way-as though they
expected you to deny 1t. But the low
story and half houses. with their gables
and the Ivy all running over II and as
green as can be are most refreshing to
look at. The hedges instead Of the fences.
and the absence of the barbed or other
fence wire is pleasing to the eye. OF
course. they have been working over these
hedges for hundreds Of years and the land
enclosed is so much smaller than ours.
that 1t is possible. Did I tell you that
just across the river mile or two from
me. there is located the land Of Andrew
Carnegie. 1.-The Laird Of Skibo" and 1
have in my collection Of photos a photo
graph Of the castle. Tomorrow at six
a. M. leave for london and will arrive
there about $50 Tuesday morning. to be
there how long I do not know, but I
suppose until have the next Job of
scouting to he done. hope to stay there
while and in the British Isles till I
get fair knowledge of them. and their
main features. hope that you will each
and all write me addressing It to the
above London address and they will for
ward it. You know one feels way away
from every one here. Best regards to all
the Silver Trouters. Also to mother. and
my friends generally.
Sincerely your comrade,
ERNEST L. RAND.