. American scenery. s sceneunfolded, and which the wondering and happy eyes of theinvalid concluded when they opened with returning conscious-ness, and rested upon the expressive face of the young doctor THE HERMIT OF THE ADIRONDACES. 255 I need not pursue my narrative, to tell you of the fairtravellers recovery, of the mutual explanations which followed,of the changed humour of the melancholy hermit, and of theultimate loss to the Adirondacks of one of the most interestingand useful of its population. Certainly a very affecting and instructive story, said , but I wonder, that in a
. American scenery. s sceneunfolded, and which the wondering and happy eyes of theinvalid concluded when they opened with returning conscious-ness, and rested upon the expressive face of the young doctor THE HERMIT OF THE ADIRONDACES. 255 I need not pursue my narrative, to tell you of the fairtravellers recovery, of the mutual explanations which followed,of the changed humour of the melancholy hermit, and of theultimate loss to the Adirondacks of one of the most interestingand useful of its population. Certainly a very affecting and instructive story, said , but I wonder, that in all my long rambles in the Adirondacks, I never should have heard a syllable of the wonderful hermit, and have never once set eyes upon hismysterious cottage orniy That, replied Mr. Asphaltum, is because you do notsee things with the true poetic vision. A primrose by the rivers brim,A yellow primrose is to him;And it is nothing more, said Professor Scumble, as our friends, like Dr. Blimberapupils, began to ooze CHAPTEE XIII Nothing more easy, said Mr. Megilp, now that we areleaving tlie Adirondacks, tlian to push, across the sunny watersof Lake Champlain, into the comfortable domains of DownEast. The change, too, from the privations of our late roughhunting grounds, to the sleek comforts of New England domes-ticity, will make a welcome contrast Patience, my dear fellow, said the Spartan chair. Thatis a bonne louche to be kept for the last. In the mean time,we have to run over that important pictorial sub-section of therepublic, which the geographies call the Middle States, andof which Pennsylvania is the key-stone, and little Delaware,and most maligned New Jersey, valuable bricks. Maryland^too, though appertaining in some respects to the Southernhousehold, is a near cousin of this branch of the family. Andour own glorious home, which comes under the same classificartion, claims yet a tribute from our hands, in addition to themany pleasant things we have been already const
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