FOOTING IT IN FRANCONIA 



AUTUMN 



" There did they dwell, 

 As happy spirits as were ever seen ; 

 If but a bird, to keep them company, 

 Or butterfly sate down, they were, I ween, 

 As pleased as if the same had been a Maiden-queen." 



WORDSWORTH. 



FIVE or six hours of pleasant railway 

 travel, up the course o one river valley after 

 another, the Merrimac, the Pemigewasset, 

 the Baker, the Connecticut, and finally the 

 Ammonoosuc, not to forget the best hour 

 of all, on the shores of Lake Winnipisaukee, 

 the spacious blue water now lying full in the 

 sun, now half concealed by a fringe of 

 woods, with mountains and hills, Chocorua, 

 Paugus, and the rest, shifting their places 

 beyond it, appearing and disappearing as 

 the train follows the winding track, five 



