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will increase, while the summers will grow 

 more dry. Look at the fall of Spain that 

 followed the destruction of her woods, and 

 let us refrain from doing as she did. 



Ah, but those mornings of crystal and 

 gold, with a tingle of frost in the air, a 

 glory in the oaks and maples, some last 

 notes of departing birds heard across the 

 fields ! Paradise was on earth again, at 

 sunrise. Swinging up the road, stick in 

 hand, meeting none but simple, kindly 

 people, whistling in exuberance of spirit, 

 what consummate joy there is in liberty ! 

 The sweet, historic old towns of Massachu- 

 setts, with their elm-shaded avenues : it is 

 a happy way through them. Brattleboro' : 

 I recall it less as an abiding-place for 

 human beings than as a splendor of au- 

 tumn color and a place where chestnuts 

 were plenty. Bellows Falls : there are real 

 falls in flood-time, and they have great 

 anger among the rocks. Then I turned to 

 the northwest, to an early haunt among the 

 mountains. 



One never recovers from the glamour of 

 youth, in so far as it pertains to natural 



