THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



taken up on private deeds, so that not one 

 man in a thousand of the population of 

 the state could walk the seashore without 

 paying tribute to some friend or speculator. 

 In like manner, the woods were closed, the 

 hills pre-empted, the brooks owned and 

 posted against trespassers, the rivers 

 farmed out, and every other form of land- 

 scape taken over for private use. Such a 

 condition is plainly intolerable; and so 

 the public-spirited men who made the dis- 

 covery were able to bring public sentiment 

 to the point of recovering to public enjoy- 

 ment a part of the state's patrimony. 

 The results have been gratifying. 



In a certain Vermont town there was 

 a great scandal last spring. A leading 

 citizen was arrested, put into the town 

 calaboose and right soundly fined. His 

 crime was beating a boy, not his own. He 

 caught the boy trespassing in his garden. 

 It appeared in the general explanations 

 that the boy was not there stealing straw- 

 berries, but that he wanted to go in swim- 

 ming. Now, there is a beautiful little river 

 running through the town and along the 

 foot of the garden owned by the scandalized 

 leading citizen, but there is not an inch of 



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