BERKSHIRE GLIMPSES. 



IT was a day which called us out of doors and up 

 the heights. A transparent atmosphere brought 

 far places near and tempted the eye to the most 

 remote horizons. When one can include the far- 

 away in his range of sight it is his duty to do it. 

 There are times enough when clouds, mists, and 

 darkness confine the eye and it must perforce con- 

 tent itself with what is near at hand. But when the 

 skies clear, and the sun rises, and the mists dissolve, 

 the time has come to look abroad and re-establish 

 relations with the remote but still real world. It 

 hardly needs to be added, brethren, that this truth 

 has a spiritual application. 



Two miles or so from our home there is a steep 

 little cliff which terminates a range of considerable 

 mountains, known even upon the dignified maps of 

 the State survey as ''Jug End.^' Its summit is a bare 

 ledge, facing squarely to the north, from which the 

 tramper's instinct assured us there must be a fine out- 

 look. Local opinion discouraged the attempt to climb 

 the ridge, and prophesied that only ftitigue and failure 

 would come of the expedition ; but that is what 



local judgment always does. It is rarely that the 



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