The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-21

MISS LILLIAN NJ. JUDD.
 larger shipping points on the coast thsnce to the agricultural region ant to seats of learning in Upsala, anG thence to the capital city of Stock. holm. Along the beautiful Gota Canal by steamer for three days ant three nights among the quiet coun- try scenes of the interior towns along wide lakes and through deer evergreen forests into open country again where heather in full bloom covered the rolling hillsides as in Scotland, and romantic and historic little churches shelter the remains of ancient monarchs of the old triple l kingdom; to Gothenburg, the city ot superlative rock gardens and velvety lawns and wide spread rose ter races; to Copenhagen by way of the castle at Elsinore, where the ghost of the gloomy Dane must still stalk abroad at eventide; thence by trim cargo boat carrying Danish butter and eggs, cheese and engine oil to Leith, Scotland, an exceptionally fine voyage of three days with crimson sunsets and moonlight nights.
 ''In Scotland, land of Robert Burns and to the haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson during his boyhood and youth, even down to the old cemetery at Glencorse where one need not be q body snatcher to imagine the ghost of the long ago dissected Gray to pop out of his can- vas bag and go galloping off down the shadowy glen in q careening gig. Under the storm blown and dripping yew trees in the moss l grown graveyard to the tomb of the | immorta Scott, where few feet away sleeps the great Field Marshal Haig, with the simple bronze cross that marks so many thousands of l graves of English soldiers to point out his resting place.
 Across the beautiful Trossachs to Glasgow. by train, by motor. by steamer and by great tallyho drawn by four fine Scotch horses.
 l By steamer to Belfast and down | to the Irish Free State and Dublin and her famous Horse Show.
 "To Killarney's lakes and dells and through the sunlit and heather covered Gap of Dunloe on horse- back.
 "Thence to Mitchelstown where the dark, cloud covered Galtes look down, mostly with tear filled eyes. for 1t rained every day but two.
 Had a good. saloon" motor car. a Morris coach and driver for eight days and visited all the surrounding country. Through the much talked of Valley of Slievenamon, whose beauty was enhanced by local shower and then bright sunlight; across the northern shoulder of the Knockmealdown mountains where we could look down from the wind ind motor road to Clogheen and across to Clonmell nesting among their trees and surrounded by fer- tile farm lands. thence over the mountains to the monastery of Mt MelIeray Abbey where Trappist monks in sandals and brown robes and shaven heads tend their hocks. their herds of cattles. their gardens and their hayfields. over hundreds fcf acres of hill and valley.
 "rhe new chapel is built of granite and limestone. The building mate- rial was taken from the barracks of the soldiers at Fermoy. When the English took away the soldiers on the establishing of the Irish Free State the far-sighted monks saw the opportunity to put good material to I instant use and they bought the bar racks, took them down and used the sery fine stone in the erection of n new chapel.
 "A plan has been made by the