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folly of leaving our good main road for a park. To 

 be sure, we might not see buffaloes, but we do see part- 

 ridge, woodchucks, wild rabbits, snakes, golden robins 

 and crows, and once, three deer were right in our path ! 

 And really we think we would prefer meeting a drove of 

 cattle on the main road, to having a big moose follow 

 us through the park, as has occurred, and might have 

 again, if it had not been at mid-day, when they go into 

 the woods. 



Finally, our advice is, in extended driving, keep to the 

 main highway, with miles of woodsy driving every day, 

 as fascinating as any Lovers' Lane, with ponds and lakes 

 innumerable, and occasional cascades so near that the 

 roaring keeps one awake all night. Then we have a 

 day's drive, perhaps, of unsurpassed beauty, which no 

 wire fence can enclose, as along the Connecticut River 

 valley on the Vermont side with an unbroken view of 

 New Hampshire hills, Moosilauke in full view, and the 

 tip of Lafayette in the distance, the silvery, leisurely 

 Connecticut dividing the two states and the green and 

 yellow fields in the foreground completing the picture. 

 No State Reservation or Park System can compete 

 with it. 



July 5 — We were in a small country hotel, kept by an 

 elderly couple, without much "help," and our hostess 

 served us at supper. When she came in with a cup of 

 tea in each hand, we expressed our regret that we did not 

 tell her neither of us drink tea. She looked surprised and 

 said she supposed she was the only old lady who did not 



take tea. 



"O wad some power the giftie gie us 

 To see oursels as others see us ! " 

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