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Title: John Paul's book: moral and instructive: consisting of travels, tales, poetry, and like fabrications
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Paul, John, 1834-1905
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Chicago, Ill. : Columbian Book Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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his guests face to face with nature andget a chance to practice on the French horn, he retreats tothe former. The preparations for migration are very simple; furnitureis already there in abundance; it is only necessary to packup sheets, blankets, table linen, china, silver and provisions,buy a steamboat, take the butler and two or three servantsalong, and the thing is done. The ride is a most enjoyableone, particularly in early October, when the maples areablaze on the hill-sides, and the walnut trees putting ontheir fall yellow, glow like huge buttercups. Brilliant ivycrawling over the rocks now wreathes the tree trunks withliving flame; and all the varying colors, interspersed withthe emerald of the evergreens, make a rarer piece of mosaicthan ever human hand turned out. In the sparkling cascadesthat tuml)le down the cliffs, you have rivieres of the purestwater. Nature never errs in the arrangement of her neck-laces and breastpins. The shores of the lake abound with wild glens where
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A GOOD GLEN FOR YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW. 037 guests may stroll and climb and break their necks at theirleisure, I remember one spot ^vllere any mother-in-law,with a single spark of romance in her nature, could be per-suaded to walk unsuspiciously, and where she would get asure fall of nearly a hundred feet. As the glen might be pur-chased reasonably, I suggest that a joint stock company beformed on the Tontine plan—for I believe it is by the Ton-tine system that the survivor alone is benefited. I willengineer the speculation in the general interests of humanity,and for a sufficient consideration will act as guide to theFall. Oh, tlie beauty of those moonlit evenings at Pine Bank,when we lashed The Adirondack Boat and The FamilyTub together—two boats with but a single thwart—andfloated over the water, our oars keeping time to the tinklingof the domestic guitar and the wild melody of the foreignhorn. Still in the ear of memory runs The Mill in theValley :— A golden ring she gave me,

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