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of interest about Centre Harbor. In accordance with our 

 usual good fortune we had a perfectly clear day on Red 

 Hill, and appreciated all Starr King has written of its 

 charms. The day spent at Ossipee Falls and Cascades 

 gave us unbounded pleasure. We reveled in the rough 

 walking and climbing, and after exploring above and 

 below the falls, we were all ready to enjoy the lunch our 

 hostess had prepared for our party, which we spread on 

 a huge rock in the narrow gap. Our horse rested while 

 we climbed, and the ten miles return drive to Centre 

 Harbor required our utmost skill. On the following day 

 we drove to Concord, N. H., a distance of forty miles. 

 After spending a few days with friends in this charming 

 place, we drove on, passing a night at the Mountain 

 House, Monadnock, to refresh the memories of our first 

 visit there, and breathing the pure air of Petersham, 

 Barre and Princeton as we journeyed towards our own 

 beautiful Leominster. 



After these seven years' wanderings, we were con- 

 sidered virtually members of the great "Order of 

 Tramps," and from that time to the present we have had 

 full and free consent "to go to our own company" ; and 

 when we boldly proposed crossing the Green Moun- 

 tains to pay a visit to friends near Lake Champlain, all 

 agreed it would be a delightful thing for us to do. We 

 closely followed the familiar railroad route through 

 Keene, Bellows Falls and Rutland ; it was a glorious 

 drive all the way. At one time we seemed buried in the 

 mountains without any way of escape, but we had only 

 to follow our winding road, which after many twistings 

 and turnings brought us to Ludlow. The next night we 



