912 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. 
Besides the profit, the trees make a grateful shade in the 
street, and add a pleasant feature to the landscape. 
Our route to-day was through the pleasant villages of 
Batavia, Stafford, Le Roy, Caledonia, Avon, East Avon 
and Lima. The extensive trout ponds at Caledonia were 
objects of interest, but the beautiful fish would have 
looked more attractive in their wild state where they 
could exercise their taste about being caught. It would 
be tame sport fishing in these ponds for trout, much 
like a chase after tame foxes. 
In passing a corn field ‘Anemone’ espied a “scare- 
crow ” still swinging from a pole. The effigy, as large 
as life, and wearing an old stove-pipe hat, caught her 
fancy, and turning to me she said, “ When you get home, 
papa, you must make me a ‘scare-crow.’” Her mother 
asked her “what she could do with a ‘scare-crow”?” 
“Oh,” the child innocently replied, “but he will also 
get me a crow to scare.” 
At Avon we rested several hours and partook of a 
good dinner at the hotel, where we found several ac- 
quaintances from Buffalo staying. Of course we had 
to drink of the attractivelooking water, which, like 
leeks, breaks the promise when you smell or taste it. A 
little of it goes a long ways, and it was some time before 
any of us were thirsty enough to hanker after Avon 
Springs water, however highly recommended as the 
true elixir. 
When we reached the high hills between the two 
Avons a shower suddenly burst upon us, but as usual, 
in such cases, a good Samaritan farmer standing in his 
