Barn doors and byways . rickyoutfit of the Reddleman moving along a whitetrail cut sharp on the furze. And plodding fig-ures in Tess pass and repass on endless high-ways, weary with you know not what the poems the poets own quaint illustrationsshow his preoccupation with roads. Ever theyare vanishing over hills, reappearing in distantvalleys, ribboning the pastures. He would callthem, no doubt, the trail of Man over the face ofthe earth. Perhaps, then, our joy of the trail 40 BARN DOORS AND BYWAYS depends on our fondness for him who made it,and the road is beautiful, lead it to Carc
Barn doors and byways . rickyoutfit of the Reddleman moving along a whitetrail cut sharp on the furze. And plodding fig-ures in Tess pass and repass on endless high-ways, weary with you know not what the poems the poets own quaint illustrationsshow his preoccupation with roads. Ever theyare vanishing over hills, reappearing in distantvalleys, ribboning the pastures. He would callthem, no doubt, the trail of Man over the face ofthe earth. Perhaps, then, our joy of the trail 40 BARN DOORS AND BYWAYS depends on our fondness for him who made it,and the road is beautiful, lead it to Carcasonneor Athol, Mass., in proportion as we are willingto share it, are glad that others have blazed it onahead, and will follow after. But does that philosophy compel us trampersto breathe with delight the dust of the passingmotor-cars ? By what new pragmatism shall weadopt them into the pleasant scheme of things?And it is a short road now which has no motor-car. Like most philosophers, I shall have to endwith a riddle!.
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