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grandfathers. Nature, when unmolested, does 

 not unmake a road, but puts many a finishing 

 touch upon it, and happy is the traveller who 

 passes that way. When such roads go out of 

 existence, walking will become mere locomotion 

 and the pedestrian by choice a curiosity. The 

 whirling throng of to-day that glory in wheel- 

 ing-paths and macadam are becoming familiar 

 enough with the wayside halting-places of their 

 rapid transits, but what of the intermediate 

 country? No spot quite empty to the eager- 

 eyed, and life lurks in many a tangle just over 

 the fence. The weeds of a single summer's 

 growth can effectually conceal the largest bird or 

 beast that is now found in our country ; ay, 

 that has been found here since the days of the 

 mastodon and giant elk. I found weeds, not 

 long since, that were eight feet high ; but then, 

 who cares for weeds? is not the very name 

 one of reproach ? and such foul growths are to 

 be shunned, not sought. Until fools are dead 

 this will ever be the case ; but a wilderness of 

 weeds of a single summer's growth will well re- 

 pay most careful exploration. It can offer stout 

 resistance to your progress, and what may not 



