. Book of the Royal blue . peaking of a tnuk. These screws, but he probably never heard anyerrors show that Kipling is like Sulli- one in a roundhouse talk about ■ iced-vans tar and w aler. •ALL OllET ALoNC. Ill]: l()!().\L\C. pOR more than one hundred miles■*■ west of Washington, the Potomacriver and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road are closely entwined, the road bein^sometimes in Maryland, although mostof the time in West \irginia, the riverforming the boundary line between thetwo States. Aside from its memories, this river-child of the mountains is of special inter-est because of its ex i rva
. Book of the Royal blue . peaking of a tnuk. These screws, but he probably never heard anyerrors show that Kipling is like Sulli- one in a roundhouse talk about ■ iced-vans tar and w aler. •ALL OllET ALoNC. Ill]: l()!().\L\C. pOR more than one hundred miles■*■ west of Washington, the Potomacriver and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road are closely entwined, the road bein^sometimes in Maryland, although mostof the time in West \irginia, the riverforming the boundary line between thetwo States. Aside from its memories, this river-child of the mountains is of special inter-est because of its ex i rvarxing lieaut\. there it feeds a canal. We are some-times close beside, and sometimes farabove it. Altogether it is a travelingcompanion which one learns to love foritself alone, and irrespective of themighty part it has played in the nationshistory. .\ll i|uiet along the Polomac they say, now .ind tlien a stray picketIs vhol. as he walks on his beat, to and fro. \;\ J rilli-iiiiii liiil in liie in: MKMUJV IIM Nli:i i-iUcOlAi Nearly all the distance it is bordered bytrees bending over its pellucid waters,as if, like Narcissus, thi-y were in lovewith their own images. In places broadand deej) and placid, in others its courseis fretted great boulders, and thewaters grow white with fury as they dashthrough the narrow obstructed the meadows slope gently to itsedge, and again the banks rise sheerand perjK-ndicular, leaving not a foot-hokl short of the most dizz\height. Insome sections the river is the neighborof many households; in others it tuniblt son its way for miks and miles in uttersolitude. Here it turns a mill; and It was //(>/ always quiet along thePotomac. For four long wear)- yearsthe valley through which it runs, andwhich now is a dream of peace andprosperity, was debatable ground forthe great armies of the North and South;and both river and railroad were crossedand recrossed, time and again, by thecontending forces. The ba
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