FOLLOWING A LOST TRAIL . 
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hollows or boulders in the road, it was cut off at 
the root; if a ford or a bog offered uncertain 
footing to the snorting horses, strong hands 
grasped their bridles and they were led through 
to surer ground. When the difficulties of the 
road became serious, the horses were left behind 
and the column pressed forward on foot. The 
ridge was met and stormed, the “harricane” 
was safely pierced, the hedgehog’s hut was vis¬ 
ited and passed, and the old lumber road was 
followed swiftly down to the grass-land and 
highway of the Albany intervale. If one wo¬ 
man in days long past had traversed the winter 
road in a sleigh, others of her sex had now over¬ 
come greater difficulties and broken the stub® 
born barrier of the Sandwich range. 
