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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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not had to give anybody anymedicine, and that they had been good childrenall of them. Abra and Gertrude went round tosee the mules, patted them and praised them.Without so much as turning the boat around,the mules were taken round on the tow-path andattached to the other end of the boat. Thecabman was paid, with a shilling extra to buycandy for his babies, and before they were tenminutes older the reunited party were goingsouth on the Champlain Canal, where the childrenhad but just now, under Ransoms auspices, beentravelling to the north. So they found the wayready for them, and so the mules, well pleased,led them ste)) by step from blue Champlain.Old Ransom sometimes, when they were comingto a lock, let the boy Nathan run along with himon the shore, finding wild roses and j^ond lilies forhis mother. Meanwhile, at Windsor, Mr. Reader had takenhis own coat-box in his hand out to the express-office, had given his instructions at the post-office,where he found Tintoretto, and walked down
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287 NEW YORK 289 to the river, rolled up his duster and tucked itunder the front seat of the canoe, had biddenTimothy good-by, and pulled out into the Con-necticut. 4905, he said to himself; 4t was in 1774that John Ledyard floated down here from Dres-den College, as he would have called DartmouthCollege. That was the beginning of the Nile andCongo for him. And for a little relief he stretched himself outin the boat, with one paddle in the water, keepingher head to the south if the river flowed south,and east when it flowed east, and west when itflowed west. There were places where he couldrun in under the shade, but not many such placesnow. There were one or two long reaches wherehe had to paddle if he meant to keep up a goodaverage days work. Sometimes at nightfall hepadlocked the canoe to a convenient post andwalked up into the town. He did this at Spring-field, and at Hartford. But five times out ofsix he found some trees, where he could rollhimself in a blanket and let the sun and

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