Tarry at home travels . rler otrar ifi/ticultus and privtitiau From an Old Print CHAPTER IIINEW HAMPSHIRE Persons or places? Why, both persons andplaces, if you please, gentle reader. If youplease, for places we can go up to the Tip TopHouse on Mount Washington, which, before weknew of the North Carolina mountains, wecalled the highest land east of the for persons we can go to GraduationDay at Exeter and see the young Americanwho means to sway the rod of empire in1935. And here am I, your guide and mentor. Thefirst time I stood at the Tip Top House was atten oclock at night in t
Tarry at home travels . rler otrar ifi/ticultus and privtitiau From an Old Print CHAPTER IIINEW HAMPSHIRE Persons or places? Why, both persons andplaces, if you please, gentle reader. If youplease, for places we can go up to the Tip TopHouse on Mount Washington, which, before weknew of the North Carolina mountains, wecalled the highest land east of the for persons we can go to GraduationDay at Exeter and see the young Americanwho means to sway the rod of empire in1935. And here am I, your guide and mentor. Thefirst time I stood at the Tip Top House was atten oclock at night in the first week of Septem-ber, 1841, with a crowbar in my hand as I pressedupon the door. It was after a tramp from Ran-dolph which had lasted seventeen hours and hadtaken us over Jefferson and through one or two 64 NEW HAMPSHIRE 65 thunderstorms. The last time I arrived there I waswith an old friend on the back seat of a victoria,with four horses before us who had trotted mostof the way from the Alpine House. And the at-. MuuxT Washington, and the White Hills.(From near Crawfords.) From an engraving of about the time of Dr. Hales first ascent. tentive keeper of the Tip Top House ran this you, Dr. Hale? I am so sorry youare just too late for our dinner, but you shallhave something to eat by the time you areready. Would you rather have hot chops, orwould you rather have some tenderloin steak? 66 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS We will make you as comfortable as we is what happens when fifty years go literally one of my last visits in New Hamp-shire was on that day, a pathetic day as it proved,which Exeter boys will long remember. Wededicated to good learning and high patriotismtwo noble buildings which George Shattuck Mori-son had cared for and for which I believe he paid,—George Morison, the king of American died a few weeks after, leaving for us two orthree leading studies of American duty whichmust not be forgotten. Yes, it is just as it was in M
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