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tion." Thus we may see how the country is threaded 

 with paths. A later writer, the author of "The 

 Gamekeeper at Home" and other books, says: 

 "Those only know a country who are acquainted 

 with its footpaths. By the roads, indeed, the out- 

 side may be seen; but the footpaths go through 

 the heart of the land. There are routes by which 

 mile after mile may be traveled without leaving 

 the sward. So you may pass from village to village; 

 now crossing green meadows, now cornfields, over 

 brooks, past woods, through farmyard and rick 

 ' barken.' " 



The conditions of life in this country have not 

 been favorable to the development of byways. We 

 do not take to lanes and to the seclusion of the 

 fields. We love to be upon the road, and to plant 

 our houses there, and to appear there mounted upon 

 a horse or seated in a wagon. It is to be distinctly 

 stated, however, that our public highways, with 

 their breadth and amplitude, their wide grassy 

 margins, their picturesque stone or rail fences, their 

 outlooks, and their general free and easy character, 

 are far more inviting to the pedestrian than the 

 narrow lanes and trenches that English highways 

 for the most part are. The road in England is 

 always well kept, the roadbed is often like a rock, 

 but the traveler's view is shut in by high hedges, 

 and very frequently he seems to be passing along 

 a deep, nicely graded ditch. The open, broad land- 

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