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Title: Barn doors and byways
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957
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Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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amlets cluster in a valley. The lights of earlymorning twinkle in the houses. Some farmer isdressing by lamp-light. Perhaps you dressed bylamp-light to catch the train. Perhaps you onlyrecall, as you lie in your berth and rub your eyesawake, those far-off days when you often saw thesun rise, days when life was as fresh as those hillswhich now rise, dew-washed and clean, beyondyour car window, so high that to see the tops ofthem you have to crane your neck. If you are aboy, the mystery of what lies beyond those hillsis heavy upon you. You think of other valleysand higher ranges, and your soul expands. Thensuddenly the train swings round a bend. Per-haps you see your own locomotive, always athrilling sight no matter what your age; and,at any rate, the car window encases fora moment the vista down the track insteadof the habitual side view. Day is coming onrapidly. It flushes that hill into which thetrack seems to vanish like the Pie3 Piper, andshows you the green cleft under high ledges
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The window framed a dark, spruce-clad mountain wearing a pink hood See page 6j THE LANDSCAPE THAT FLOWS 69 where the mountain river has bitten its waythrough. A moment, and you are in that cleft, under theshadow of the cliffs which make almost a secondnight as they tower over your window with theirdark evergreens clinging to every ledge andcranny. A few miles more, and you are throughthe cleft in the mountains, into a second dawn,and are rolling along above a new and wider val-ley. You are on your way to the plains. Youhave the sensation of bursting through the moun-tain range. The window flashes a procession ofgreat tree-trunks close at hand, and through thesetrunks you glimpse far below you the wide greenintervale, misty with the low morning sun, a pic-ture of dazzling distances new-washed with thedawn. As the track drops down to the lower levels,stretches of forest alternate with ample greenglades where the eye now enjoys the restful senseof flatness, and the occasional houses as t

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