FOREWORD. 



Many of these informal reports of more than 14,000 

 miles' driving were written for the Boston Evening 

 Transcript some years ago, and the later letters for the 

 Leominster Daily Enterprise. They cover an unbroken 

 series of summer and autumn journeys, which have never 

 lost any of the freshness and charm of that first little trip 

 of two hundred miles along the Connecticut. A drive 

 across the continent, or even on the other side of the 

 water would seem less of an event to us now than that 

 first carriage journey. This volume is a response to 

 "You ought to make a book," from many who have been 

 interested in our rare experience. 



Leominster, Mass. 



F. C. A. 



F. S. H. 



