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Just beyond the town "dump" on Pearl street, on the knoll, is 

 a cellar hole once occupied by the house of Bezaleel Hill, who left town 

 in 1812. He was a famous inventor, an original of Darius Green, as 

 he invented a flying machine and, with great wings on his arms, leaped 

 from his second-story window. The story runs that he said the flying 

 was all right, but it was the stopping that hurt. 



Slowly we leave these woods 



"Where, when the sunshine struck a yellow shade 

 The rugged trunks, to inward peeping sight 

 Thronged in dark ])illars up the gold green light," 



to drive straight on to Westminster, all the way a delight. 



Worlhington Park. 



The delicate wild geranium ( Goaiiiiiiii iiiacu/atiiiii ) and, in sum- 

 mer, the wood lily ( Lilium Philadclphicniii ) and clover head polygala 

 ( Polygala sanguiriea ) brighten the roadside with their beds of color. 

 Or we may turn through Temple street and go under the railroad to 

 climb Barber hill, and then by little-used roads past Topliet swamp to 

 the village of Westminster, rettirning through the woods and swamps 

 on the "turnpike" to South Gardner, picking the white swamp honey- 

 suckle ( RJiododendron zdscosum ) blooming in the very midst of the 



