. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . CHAPTER I. iUTWiIRD iOUJ^D. And for to see, and eke for to be seye.— T last I had some good news for Prue — and formjself, too. It had looked for a time as thoughthere was to be no vacation tliis jear, when itseemed more than usually needful to both of us;though we were by no means broken in health —only a little strained. But that is just the pointwhen one w^ants to stop and recuperate, partlybecause it costs the system less energy to recovert


. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . CHAPTER I. iUTWiIRD iOUJ^D. And for to see, and eke for to be seye.— T last I had some good news for Prue — and formjself, too. It had looked for a time as thoughthere was to be no vacation tliis jear, when itseemed more than usually needful to both of us;though we were by no means broken in health —only a little strained. But that is just the pointwhen one w^ants to stop and recuperate, partlybecause it costs the system less energy to recoverthan after the breaking-down is complete, andpartly because a pretty w^ell man can enjoy hisvacation so much more than a pretty ill one can. So I rode home that evening in a hmny, but curbed my spiritsbefore I went into the house, and made no sign until the roast was outof the way, and I had a little cup of coflfee and my after-dinner cigarwell a-light. Then I suppose my satisfaction began to come to thesurface for my wife spoke out, rather sharph^, — Cant you tell me the joke? If theres anjthing especially dis-agreeable in 3ou, Theo, its that way you have of hugging a good storyto yourself and not telling i


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