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especially attractive view— Gardner and its multitude of houses framed 

 in by the walls of earth. All roads that are before you are invit- 

 ing, but if you have the time, go down into and across the Ware River 

 valley, through the Four Corners, and swing home through Phillipston 

 Centre and Goulding Village, across the Great Meadows, where pout 

 and pickerel thrive. On such a trip, if in late July, one may find, in a 

 hollow between the Phillipston hills, a great cluster of purple loose- 

 strife ( Lvthruin salicai-ia ) crowning the marsh, standing as brilliantly 

 erect as in its native land in the days of Ophelia. 



Bickford-Travers Mill-Dam. 



"There is a willow grows aslant a brook 

 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream, 

 There with fantastic garlands did she come 

 Of crow flowers, nettles, daisies and long purples 

 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 

 But our cold maids do dead meu's fingers call them." 



To get far away from the noise of the town, turn south from East 

 Templeton to Hubbardston, over Mine hill. The road terraces the 

 .steep hillside, with precipitous depths beneath in the shadows of the 

 woods ; the cur\'es under the hill reminding us of the famous Geyser 



