. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . w, if only there were a way leadingfrom Fairy-land to Shirley! And it turnedout that there was. UZ CHAPTER XXIII THE RIGHT WAY TO GO TO SHIRLEY Everybody goes to Shirley the wrong found that out by ourselves happeningto go the right way. When you are sailing up the James inyour houseboat (You havent one? Well, amake-
. Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time . w, if only there were a way leadingfrom Fairy-land to Shirley! And it turnedout that there was. UZ CHAPTER XXIII THE RIGHT WAY TO GO TO SHIRLEY Everybody goes to Shirley the wrong found that out by ourselves happeningto go the right way. When you are sailing up the James inyour houseboat (You havent one? Well, amake-believe one will do just as well, andin some ways better), do not pass EppesCreek, as everybody does, and go to the Shir-ley pier; but, instead, enter the creek and tieup at Leaning Tree Landing as we did. Then, instead of taking that trail up thehill that leads only into a cornfield, look fora path leading to the left through the is not much of a path; and unless youlove Nature in even her capricious moods,when she now and then trips the foot of theunwary and mayhap even scratches, it is toobad after all that you came this way. Tolove of Nature should lie added a certainmeasure of agility, so that you will be allright when you come to the fence. Fortu- 344. THE RIGHT WAY TO GO TO SHIRLEY nately, you can let down the upper rails —being careful to put them back again whenyou are safe on the other side. Beyond the fence, a great pasture-fieldstretches away endlessly. But then every-thing is on a large scale at Shirley. Ample-ness is the keynote; it pervades you have half crossed the field, youwill come upon a road that will lead you toa little eminence near the quarters. No, it is not a village that you now seepeeping out through the grove over there bythe river; it is the group of buildings con-stituting the homestead of Shirley. In thebright sunlight, you can pick out bits of themansion through the trees, of the dairy, ofthe kitchen, and of the smal
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