CHAPTER XV. 



ON HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. 



1894 to 1904. 



In response to many requests to share this journey 

 with our friends as we used, the spirit has moved us to 

 give you first an inkling of our annual trips for the ten 

 years since our last report. 



This is easily done, for we have a book in which is 

 recorded the name given to each journey, the name of 

 every town we pass through, with distance from place 

 to place, and the sum total of time, distance and expense 

 of each journey. This goes with us, and is a valuable 

 book of reference. The revolver still goes with us, too, 

 the one thing we take but never use. Our electric hand- 

 lamp, on the contrary, is very useful. The Kennebec 

 journey was followed by our first visit to Nantucket, 

 leaving our horse at New Bedford, and once again pro- 

 longing the return trip to Leominster by driving to 

 Boston. This journey had a memorable postscript: We 

 drove to Boston for a day or two in the autumn and were 

 detained eleven days by that terrific November snow 

 storm, and even then the last thirty miles of the return 

 trip it was good sleighing ! 



A September mountain trip, "The Figure 8" we named 

 it, comes next in order, followed by a Jefiferson and Jack- 

 son trip, and then a Massachusetts journey, which is 

 always delightful. 



The three ranges of the Green Mountains, with their 



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