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Across Lots is Best 



F | &quot;MrlERE are two ways of going from one 

 place to another, sometimes more, but 

 always two ; you may either take the 

 highroad or go across lots. By the highroad 

 one gets there quicker, as a rule, for several rea 

 sons, as because it actually is a road, with the im 

 pediments to travel removed, the streams bridged, 

 the way marked out so that the wayfaring man, 

 though a fool, need not err therein. Also one 

 finds less that distracts the attention ; his task is 

 laid out before him by the surveyors and the civil 

 engineers, or at least by the selectmen, assessors 

 and overseers of the poor for in truth some roads 

 do not appear to have had any surveying or en 

 gineering, but to have been made the way the 

 little girl s mother cut her waists &quot; by presume.&quot; 

 It is true that out in the country, there are many 

 of these highways which are really most attractive 

 and tempting to divagation, being so winding, wil 

 ful and hid away that they seem only temporarily 

 diverted from the original cowpath or wood-road. 



