186 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK 



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Crittenden ffome, 



Crittenden, New York, 



June Sixteenth. 



Started from "Croft's" at ten o'clock, stopping at the 

 little post village of Corfu for dinner, where I was 

 introduced to several people who had come together 

 to greet me upon my arrival. Among them were Dr. 

 Fuller, Dr. John McPherson and S. E. Dutton. 

 Dinner over, I rested until five o'clock, resuming my 

 journey at that hour and reaching Crittenden at six. 

 As I rode up to the hotel at this place I found that a 

 number of villagers had gathered to give me welcome, 

 and to learn something of my journey and its objects. 

 I talked to them for some time and then followed a 

 strong inclination to walk into the country. Tiiere 

 were no unusual attractions about this little village of 

 a hundred souls excepting the cordiality of its people 

 and the natural attraction that there always is about a 

 small community in the midst of thriving acres. To 

 one who has been "a country boy'' himself, these 

 things never lose their charm, and he will give them 

 the preference, I think, to the finest sights in town. 



They recall a certain old home somewhere, long 

 since abandoned for the charms of Vanity Fair, or a 

 quaint little " school house " where he first began to 

 think about the great world beyond. They form, 

 too, the resting-places in the ascent of the hill of life, 

 from the vantage-ground of which we may review 

 our progress since those early days. 



