Many of these informal reports of more than 14,000 miles’ driving were written for the Boston Evening Transcript some years ago, and the later letters for the Leominster Daily Enterprise. They cover an unbroken series of summer and autumn journeys, which have never lost any of the freshness and charm of that first little trip of two hundred miles along the Connecticut. A drive across the continent, or even on the other side of the water would seem less of an event to us now than that first carriage journey. This volume is a response to “You ought to make a book,” from many who have been interested in our rare experience.
F.C.A.
F.S.H.
Leominster, Mass.
CONTENTS.
| I. | Summer Travels in a Phaeton, | [1] |
| II. | Chronicle of the Tenth Annual Drive, | [16] |
| III. | Old Orchard and Boston, | [32] |
| IV. | Moosilauke and Franconia Notch, | [48] |
| V. | Connecticut, with side trip to NewJersey, | [73] |
| VI. | Dixville Notch and Old Orchard, | [91] |
| VII. | Catskills, Lake George and GreenMountains, | [109] |
| VIII. | Narragansett Pier and Manomet Point, | [127] |
| IX. | White Mountains and Vermont, (A Six Hundred Miles Drive.) | [137] |
| X. | By Phaeton to Canada, (Notes of a Seven Hundred Miles Trip.) | [153] |
| XI. | Outings in Massachusetts, | [173] |
| XII. | Bar Harbor and Boston, | [190] |
| XIII. | Dixville Notch and the North Shore, | [211] |
| XIV. | The Kennebec Journey, | [228] |
| XV. | On Highways and Byways, (1894 TO 1904.) | [241] |
| XVI. | Lake Memphremagog, | [252] |
| POSTSCRIPT. Buggy Jottings of Seven HundredMiles Driving, Circuit of the New England States. | [265] | |
14000 MILES
CHAPTER I.
SUMMER TRAVELS IN A PHAETON.
“We were a jolly pair, we two, and ladies at that; and we had decided to go, amid the protestations of the towns-people and the remarks of Madam Grundy that it was not proper, and that there were so many tramps it was not prudent for two ladies to take a trip with their horse and carriage along the North Shore. Nevertheless, we take our lives in our hands, and ‘do the trip’ in a large comfortable, roomy buggy,” etc.