AUG. 31, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

A WALK IN VERMONT. 
Tue tendency of the times shows itself in the- 
of men, 
They fish, they 
constantly greater enjoyment women 
and children in life. 
hunt, they canoe, they ride, they play golf, or 
jjust walk. 
| A young woman of Massachusetts, who is now 
walking with a Vermont, tells in a 
letter to a friend in Springfield, Mass., what 
The extract 
outdoor 
friend in 
lsort of a time they are having. 
was printed in the Springfield Republican. It 
\says: 
| “We started Saturday morning on the trolly 
land got to the foot of Greylock about 5:30 P. 
(M. and have been walking ever since, with the 
fexception of going by train through the Hoosac 
Itunnel and about 20 miles of narrow gauge road 
lup to Wilmington, Vt. We shall have tramped 
‘by to-night 54 miles in five days, that is pretty 
good, don’t you think? We are now sitting on 
ta side hill with a lovely meadow sloping away 
and grand old mountains in the background— 
oh! it’s great. This spot is about nine miles 
{from West Wardsboro, Vt., where we stayed 
last night. Yesterday we covered the 14 miles 
between Wilmington and West Wardsboro. All 
of the road was up and down, hilly and woodsy 
jand grass grown and cool, miles and miles of 
the prettiest you can imagine. When we got 
tired we tumbled over a stone wall and rested 
lunder a tree; hungry—approach a farm-house 
‘with our most diplomatic manner, an ingratiat- 
ing smile and food was forthcoming—generally 
\for nothing. The same methods at night gen- 
serally procure a bed. 
' “We are going on about 3% miles more to- 
night, and then apply the smiles, and to-mor- 
‘row we will cover the eight miles or so between 
that point and Manchester and there friends 
tmeet us and drive us to Dorset, where Mary 
lives. 
“The people along the road are perfectly great 
|to us and treat us like cute children at play, 
and lend a helping hand with an amused and 
tolerant smile. All the 14 miles from Wilming- 
ton to West Wardsboro we never passed 
|through a village and all this 22 from West 
/Wardsboro to Manchester we pass none. Up 
in the hills yesterday we read a sign-post that 
isaid, ‘3 miles to West Wardsboro’—we swung 
jalong very gayly through dark, damp woods 
4for what seemed about four, and then we met 
/two men in a carriage. Mary said in_ her 
politest tone, ‘Are we coming to something?’ 
/As I saw their dazed expression I hastened to 

ee by ‘Are we near anywhere? This 
seemed clear to them, and they assured us 
|‘somewhere’ was one-half mile away. They 
Nasked us how far we had come, and when we 
lsaid from Wilmington the younger one said 
‘Good God!’ Cheered by this subtle flattery, we 
sped along. 
“Such ferney, piney, woodsey odors as the 
|breezes waft to us! and the breezes blow all 
|the time and it is cool. Such loads of birds with 
jtheir lovely songs, such flocks of butterflies, 
lsuch swarms also of hoppy-toads that don’t de- 
‘cide to move until almost stepped on, and then 
flop upon our skirts! When we are footsore, 
| we dip our feet in the healing coolness of the 
/mountain brooks, when we awake in the morn- 
ing with calves as stiff as old sole leather, we 
ltrot around our room with a set grin, and lo! 
\they are limber once more. 
“The weather has smiled and been kind, and 
labsolutely nothing has happened to jar the per- 
fect joy of it all. We are deliciously dirty, but 
|lwe have each one clean waist in which we 
\dress for dinner sometimes, and we ourselves 
get clean once a day, so get along very well. 
“We are getting more and more in trim and 
lfeel fine at the end of our day’s trip, and hate 
to have Manchester heave in sight.” 


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