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Identifier: tarryathometrav00hale (find matches)
Title: Tarry at home travels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New York (State) -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e state of Vermontin an envelope in which he had received it fromthe secretary of state, and the heutenant-governor. The whole of it could be transmittedfor four cents worth of postage. This governor,if the Philistines want to know, had a salary of athousand dollars a year, and if it were necessaryfor his wifes health or fo^ his own studies thathe should spend a month in western NorthCarolina, why, he could do so, leaving detailsto the lieutenant-governor. What this gentle-man needed to consult the governor about couldbe transacted, as I saw, through the Post Office.Happy is that people whose history is not written !Happy is that people whose legislative sessionsare few and short! Happy i» that state whichalways votes the Republican ticket! They in-vented a new motto for their state some fiftyyears ago, The star which never sets. Thismeans that from the beginning they never gavein to the Southern Oligarchy in any matter ofform or of principle.There are many, many ways to see Vermont.
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116 VERMONT 117 There are many, many pleasant places to visitin Vermont. Go, if you please, to Atherton,an imaginary town which I invented for myunread novel, Sybil Ivnox. For myself, Inever enjoyed life more than I did when, in 1864,I started with my haversack from the mouth ofthe Ashuelot River and walked across to Burling-ton and Lake Champlain. I could make a bookabout my memories of that walk, of the personswho joined me, of the scenery, and of the gloriousprosperity of the free people. The earliest history of Vermont carries usback to the very beginning of the seventeenthcentury. When Champlain was doing his best to getthrough to the Pacific Ocean, he discovered thelake which bears his name. Somewhere at thesouthern end of that lake he and the Indianswho escorted him had a skirmish with someother Indians who were perhaps Iroquois. It isnot possible to place the incident of these earlyadventures of his. The state as we found of New Hampshire has ai 118 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Revol

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