Partly Practical 







SHOULD any reader care to make a 

 journey afoot, I commend to him 

 these considerations : have a general plan, 

 but do not feel obliged to follow it slavishly, 

 for chance brings benefits that are worth 

 going aside to gain, while it interposes ob- 

 stacles that it is wasteful and foolish to 

 surmount. Don't climb a mountain or a 

 monument in a fog, or visit a waterfall when 

 August heats have dried it up, for the reason 

 that your schedule calls for these things. 

 Prepare yourself ahead with a few facts 

 about roads, taverns, show places, distances, 

 history, legends, and if you have a scientific 

 bent, geography, geology, mineralogy, and 

 botany. Every mile of the walk will then 

 have an interest denied to the man who is 

 intent on covering space or seeing the 

 hackneyed sights. Cautions are offered 

 a-plenty. A will tell you that there must 

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