THE COUNTRY ROAD 
Example 
The photographs herewith reproduced (Figures 138-145) offer 
one example and a characteristic one. These were all made on one 
stretch of country road, approximately one half mile in length, in 
Franklin County, Mass. With two exceptions they were all made 
in one afternoon, so that they do not profit by the kaleideoscopic 
variety introduced by the changing seasons. One has still to con- 
sider what this half-mile of road would offer in the fetching days of 
Fig. 142. Tue Farm Houser rrom Viewrornt L 
early spring or in autumn with the maples colored, or in midwinter 
with a snow-covered landscape. Even on this one trip, which was 
made in August, another hundred pictures could have been taken, 
each exhibiting a view as interesting and as beautiful as the samples 
here shown. 
This is what the country roads are like. They are at once in- 
comparably beautiful and supremely democratic. They are for 
everybody. Their beauty is not kept secretly for the delight of an 
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