50 THE EXHILARATIONS OP THE ROAD. 



The joy of moving and surmounting, of attrition and 

 progression, the thirst for space, for miles aud leagues 

 of distance, for sights and prospects, to cross mount- 

 ains and thread rivers, and defy frost, heat, snow, 

 danger, difficulties, seizes it ; and from that day forth 

 its possessor is enrolled in the noble army of walkers. 



