Year: 1872

I rocks and crags, we at length came to
the lip; descending this we found q


pathway leading far down the noun


tain. This the guide told us was the


pathway to the cave. We followed


him, down, down, over places where


an unwary step might be very dan


gerous, till we reached the cave, which


we found to be an opening, running


back into the rock 20 or so feet, and


extending as high above our heads


Beneath our feet lay the snow and


ice. some twenty feet deep-July ID


On listening we could hear the water


trickling and falling in the distance


far below. On returning to the top of


The ledge we concluded not to go onto


the chin as it was then growing quite


late and we desired to reach Stowe


that evening.


must not neglect to speak Of the


house and the coU. The house is q


frame, about 40 feet front by 20 feet


deep, with a wing extending back


some 40 feet. The whole is two sto-


ries high and ceiled throughout, in


side, with thin boards. 1t was built


some years ago, before the carriage


road was made, and when there was


no road but a bride. path up the


mountain; and all the material of


which it was built, as well as all the


furniture, ,parlor stoves, cooking stoves,


etc., were carried up on horseback.


1t is opened for the season about the


first of June, and closed about the
first of November, each year. The
COW seems quite an ordinary one,
showing her ribs like the majority of
good milch cows; however, whether
this comes from being a good milker,
or from the short picking on the


mountain, I cannot say. What l


know about mileh cows, will give me
no claim to the White House. There
is one habit, though, which she has,
which is peculiar. When she Is on
the mountain-where she has spent
her summers for the past twelve years
she wears a bell; if this bell be ta-
ken off, at any time, she will 90 down
to the lower country. When down,
if it be put upon her again she will
Immediately go TO the top of the
mountain, no matter what the season
of the year. The experiment has
been tried with her repeatedly. In
the spring they put the bell on her
and she goes up alone and stays there
till the bell is taken of, when she
finds her way down, -...--


At 81 o'clock we started on our
way home. Going down we soon
emerged from the cloud, and had
very fine view of the country. Every
thing looked beautiful. We remain
ed all night at Stowe and at 81 o'clock
next morning we took the coach-one
of the old fashioned stages for Wafer
bury. Four of our ladies, with the
spirit of self-sacriflce, peculiar to the
sex, concluded to try and make them
selves comfortable on the ontslde OF
the coach, and allow the gentlemen
of the party the pleasure of the inside
seats on lovely July morning. Vir-
tue always has its reward, not always
so swift as in this instance, but sure.
We had not proceeded far when we
noticed a storm gathering in the
blacklist of black
and the purest of white ones
some forming at the base of the noun
tains and rising higher and higher
until the whole was enveloped, 9TH
ers tumbling over the tops, and still
others rolling and piling through the
gorges, was Of all things we had wit
messed, the grandest. While the la
dies gazed in open mouthed aston
ishment, the storm burst upon us in
all its fury. Such a scrabbling for
and umbrellas, you never
saw. But alas, too late TO be of much
service. The storm continued for an
hour and at least one half of that time
with unabated, violence. The ladies
never limited at an exchange of seats
neither did we. BY the time we
reached Waterbury they were literal
ly soaked, and think that had you
been there, you would have done as
we did; that is, have laughed most
heartily at the dripping bundles we
so gallantly handed down from the
coaeh's top. Two hours ride by rail
brought US home, where we are rest
ing preparatory to trying a trip TO Mt.
Washington. J.