AUTUMN 35 



" But then, perhaps you would never have 

 had a genus named for you, anyhow," the 

 entomologist continues, still bent upon mis- 

 chief. 



And there we leave the matter. Let the 

 shoemaker stick to his last. Some of us 

 were not bom to shine at badinage, or as 

 collectors of beetles. For myself, in this 

 bright September weather I have no ambi- 

 tions. It is enough, I think, to be a follower 

 of the road, breathing the breath of life and 

 seeing the beauty of the world. 



In the afternoon I took the Landaff Val- 

 ley round, down the village street nearly to 

 the junction of Gale River and Ham Branch, 

 then up the Ham Branch (or Landaff) Val- 

 ley to a crossroad on the left, and so back 

 to the road from the Profile Notch, and by 

 that home again. The jaunt, which is one 

 of our Franconia favorites, is peculiar for 

 being substantially level ; with no more up- 

 hill and downhill than would be included in 

 a walk of the same distance — perhaps six 

 miles — almost anywhere in southern New 

 England. 



