294 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



indeed, at any season, but with the coming 

 on of the cooler weather comes the bustle 

 and hurry of business, and few can then 

 escape from their accustomed toils. Indeed, 

 the country in winter is a terra incoynita 

 to most citizens, even those whose occu 

 pations do not tie them to the cities, if I 

 were not constitutionally opposed to puns, 

 I should say a terror incognita. If it were 

 otherwise, and they really knew how beauti 

 ful the winter is, the exodus from the cities 

 would be so great that we should have to 

 go to them to find elbow room, excepting 

 that the country &quot; all out of doors &quot; is 

 so broad and hospitable. As it is, even in 

 summer time and on the border of our 

 village, some find it very lonesome at their 

 first coming. 



The lodge has now been used as such for 

 about ten years. It is under the direct 

 charge of a farmer well on in middle life 

 (who was born in it), and his wife, who 

 are thus enabled to remain in their old 

 home, and at the same time effectively serve 

 the purpose of those responsible for the 

 venture. 



It is pleasant to meet the pale inmates 

 strolling in the sun, and feel that some of 

 the humours of their common life are being 



