I 174 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
The Vacation 
Part I. 
Let me first explain that these vacation 
notes were written in late August. This 
explanation will enable ns lo get the 
time ami the season right. Here we are 
in a hunter’s camp, overlooking a lovely 
little lake or pond hack in the woods of 
Eastern Connecticut. If you could start 
a crow or a carrier pigeon from our 
camp and have him travel in a beeline 
for Hope Farm he would fan the air for 
about 130 miles before he could rest in 
our big cherry tree. There are 10 of us 
crowded into three rooms and a sleeping 
porch. Close packing, you will say, but 
that is often good for big families. I 
know some families who would be far bet¬ 
ter off for a jam of this sort. It might 
grind down some of the hearings and 
mhko 'the family machine run more easily. 
At any rate, here we are, living about as 
simple a life as wisdom can invent. You 
may argue that a farm family has no 
business to take any vacation when to¬ 
matoes ere 25 cents a basket and apples 
ran hardly be given away. Argue all you 
like—here we are. It was a great doctor 
who said he could do a full years work 
in 11 months, but he could not do it in 
12. It seems lo me that the bread of life 
is better for an occasional loaf—and we 
are getting a loaf of full size. 1 will tell 
you how we came to this place a little 
later. Just now the lish are biting fairly 
well, and, no doubt, you would prefer 
We are right at the edge of the 
Pcquot Indian reservation, A rough and 
rocky hill rises up from the lake, with a 
thick tangle of woods stretching for miles. 
These hills may have had their wooden 
overcoats trimmed now and then with the 
ax. but today they are much as they wen- 
300 years ago. when the Pequots ruled 
this country. Great rocks shoulder out 
here and there, little ponds and swamps 
appear in the hollows. You come upon 
paths and grass-grown roads branching 
off into this wilderness. We have fol¬ 
lowed many of them up, to find at the 
end a small clearing. There is usually a 
good garden and small farm, with a neat 
house and buildings. The people who 
occupy these lonely places arc dark in 
color, yev you may sec at a glance that 
they are not pure negroes. You find 
them straight and upright in carriage. 
They have a peculiar walk—“toeing in” 
—that is, the feet move toward each 
other as they walk. The Frenchman will 
shrug his shoulders, the Hebrew will 
wave his hands, the Swede will wear a 
mustache like a walrus, and the Indian 
will “toe in.” These are dominant char¬ 
acteristics which go with breeding. Nor 
do these people laugh and giggle as many 
negroes do. They are serious minded and 
inclined to be silent, for they are mostly 
of Indian blood, with some evident mix¬ 
ture of negro. That seems to me like a 
good combination for a pioneer farmer 
in these scrub oaks—though there must 
be gray and lonely days when a little more 
of the negro’s laughter and souse of 
humor would be an advantage. 
They will cut down your Gas, Power 
and Transportation expense 
West of us. towering 540 ft. in the air. 
stands Lantern Hill. It is a great rock 
of solid limestone or marble. One even¬ 
ing we looked across the lake at this 
white mass just as the sun was setting. 
The marble glittered in the sunset, like 
some great illumined face, and I could 
understand how these men of Indian 
blood regard it. Centuries ago it must; 
have been regarded as a god, or idol, to 
be worshipped. An Indian woman told 
us that Eneas, chief of the Mohicans, 
fought one of his rivals at the top of this 
hill. Perhaps the dusky lady over whom 
they fought stood by—an impartial ref¬ 
eree. The woman who told ns the story 
said she would have enjoyed being there 
to see the light. At any rate, the story 
goes that Uucas killed his rival and 
hurled him over the cliff, and the Indians 
say there , is a great stain down the face 
of the marble where the blood of this 
murdered man ran. We climbed the rock 
afternoon, and I thought I detected 
■, truck, engine or pump, and your really need renewing just as much as tires do. 
ill depend upon the motor's piston There is this difference: you can see tire wear 
s and pins for economy and the easily, but you cannot see piston ring, piston and 
igth of life. There is great waste in pin wear. Power loss in the motor and an in- 
when wear has taken place in these crease in gas and oil consumption tells you of it, 
fits. And these parts wear faster in however. 
than they do in city-used motors. Sometimes only piston rings axe required to re- 
tsty roads and fields. store these losses due to wear. There is a Mc- 
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mixes with the lubricating oil where all made of Electric Iron. 
l abrasive and produces more wear if, however, the cylinders are worn enough to 
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croovcd rings cannot ,n a To keep get from n plum su 
do. Each ring packed ‘‘'em clean and free ring. They are pack 
in a parchment con- from rust, each ring is twelve rings to the ei 
tainer. packed in an individual ton and rolled in wax 
one afternoon, and i tnought i uececteu 
a brown stain which seemed to me like 
the rust from some deposit of iron. But 
the rest of the- family could not. see it. 
Perhaps my imagination is stronger! 
What interested me most was the way 
these men with dark skin regard their 
present situation and the outcome of his¬ 
tory. One of them told us with the ut¬ 
most seriousness that when “Columbus 
discovered America” the first thing lie 
saw on the continent was Lantern Hill. 
They actually believe that, and you can¬ 
not Convince them that they are wrong, 
for they have no background of history 
such as white men have been taught. 
Something like nine or 10 generations of 
white men and dark men have lived here 
side by side since the Pequots were con¬ 
quered*. The dark men have adopted 
some of the white men’s ways of life, hut 
in thought and social feeling most of 
them are still wide apart. On Sunday 
afternoon these people had a picnic on a 
rocky point, which juts out into the lake. 
There were 50 or more of them, with a 
battery of cars parked near the voad. A 
company of pure negroes would have been 
singing and dancing or loitering about in 
the very joy of living. No doubt pure¬ 
bred Indians would have indulged in some 
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