Tarry at home travels . was doing America. And I have dehghtedmyself ever since with imagining what his descrip-tion of Cape Cod would have been if he had gonewith us on that days outing. For I am afraidfrom that time to this time no four-in-hand hasbeen driven over those sands, certainly noneby a more accomplished or agreeable guide. Of course the gentle reader may begin where helikes. I should not be sorry if, hiring a cottageat Nahant or Marblehead Neck or on the BeverlyShore, quite early in June, he made William andEdward, if those were the names of his grooms-men, keep up the horses in go
Tarry at home travels . was doing America. And I have dehghtedmyself ever since with imagining what his descrip-tion of Cape Cod would have been if he had gonewith us on that days outing. For I am afraidfrom that time to this time no four-in-hand hasbeen driven over those sands, certainly noneby a more accomplished or agreeable guide. Of course the gentle reader may begin where helikes. I should not be sorry if, hiring a cottageat Nahant or Marblehead Neck or on the BeverlyShore, quite early in June, he made William andEdward, if those were the names of his grooms-men, keep up the horses in good condition tillThanksgiving time, and from these centres ifhe and Madam and the older children madeexcursions, a week at a time, into the differentregions of Massachusetts. But possibly the horsesmay be sick with some epizootic disease — pos-sibly William and Edward may have returnedfor the summer to visit Tipperary or Riigen,and we may need the trolley, steamboat, or,best of all, our good feet. In that case, Boston. 169 MASSACHUSETTS 171 is still the best centre. It is an excellent water-ing-place. There is my own treatise on Pic-turesque Massachusetts, and my HistoricalBoston and Harry and Lucy, which mightlie on the table. And if it were only a trolley,there are trolley rides by which this reader maysweep what is well-nigh a circle of fifty milesradius. For Massachusetts Bay, which takes in asegment of perhaps a quarter of this circle, we willrely on the Othniel or Jathniel or any other ofthe steam yachts of our friends, or, in a moredemocratic fashion, we will rely on the dailyexcursion steamer. For a last resort, at least wecan invest five cents in a street-car, and go tothe South Boston public baths or to GovernorsIsland. You may cut out the list of towns already given,and go to each and all. But to try geographicalorder, what we really want to see, ranging fromnorth to south, are, first, the towns north of theMerrimac to which we owe the name, now national,of the Ger
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