New Walks in Old Ways 



used, or lose condition; so if you are 

 keeping one just for the joy of an 

 occasional ride, and have but a few 

 weeks or months in the calendar year 

 when you would greatly like to use him, 

 you are paying rather sumptuously for 

 the privilege. Hence it has come to 

 pass, out here at Dumbiedykes, that I 

 have settled down to the proposition 

 that, all things considered, there is no 

 journey in all this world that really 

 has more fascination than just a leisure 

 hour afoot, along an unfrequented 

 country roadway. And I am perfectly 

 content to go alone. In fact, so few 

 people agree with me in this special 

 particular that, as a rule, I have no 

 choice in the matter. Occasionally 

 I go as early as 6 o'clock A. M. on rare 

 days in June. 



I have discovered something about 

 this hiking business: the fellow who 

 designed the "last" for the army shoe 

 knew what he was about. You might 

 not like it around the Blackstone, but 

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