THE FOOT-PATH WAY. 



JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 



' ' Herbs, fruits, and flowers, 

 Walks, and the melody of birds." 



MILTON. 



THERE were six of us, and we had the 

 entire hotel, I may almost say the entire 

 valley, to ourselves. If the verdict of the 

 villagers could have been taken, we should, 

 perhaps, have been voted a queer set, fami- 

 liar as dwellers in Franconia are with the 

 sight of idle tourists, 



" Rapid and gay, as if the earth were air, 

 And they were butterflies to wheel about 

 Long as the summer lasted." 



We were neither "rapid." nor "gay," and 

 it was still only the first week of June ; if 

 we were summer boarders, therefore, we 

 must be of some unusual early - blooming 

 variety. 



