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Updated: June 7, 2025
All through the late afternoon they are coming and going, plashing through the shallow ford below us, enjoying the cool, clear water, disappearing along the foot-paths that lead among the hills. These are very different cattle from the herds we saw among the Bedouins a couple of hours ago; fine large creatures, well bred and well fed, some cream-coloured, some red, some belted with white.
Purchasers had to stand in the streets and transact business, the said streets being so narrow that there was no room for lobbies or paved foot-paths.
In the farm-houses, and in the dwellings of the middle-class, the crèche is placed always in the living-room, and so becomes an intimate part of the family life. On a table set in a corner is represented a rocky hill-side dusted with flour to represent snow rising in terraces tufted with moss and grass and little trees and broken by foot-paths and a winding road.
Vincent and the baron remained behind to take lunch with the Gold Commissioner's wife, leaving Frona and Corliss to go down the hill together. Silently consenting, as though to prolong the descent, they swerved to the right, cutting transversely the myriad foot-paths and sled roads which led down into the town.
Then we painfully ascended the hill not less than a forty-five per cent grade in motor parlance and wandered through the streets if such an assortment of narrow foot-paths, twisting around the corners, may be given the courtesy of the name until we came to the site of the castle.
"'Tis a terrible scattered population in Barlow to favor with a procession." It was a mild starlit night. The three friends took their separate ways presently, leaving the Plains road and crossing the fields by foot-paths toward their farms. The week went by, and the next Saturday morning brought fair weather.
But a fresher delight is to be found in the foot-paths, which go wandering away from stile to stile, along hedges, and across broad fields, and through wooded parks, leading you to little hamlets of thatched cottages, ancient, solitary farm-houses, picturesque old mills, streamlets, pools, and all those quiet, secret, unexpected, yet strangely familiar features of English scenery that Tennyson shows us in his idyls and eclogues.
Glimpses of foot-paths leading from one widely-separated dwelling to another might be here and there seen; but there were no roads, for no wheeled vehicle had yet invaded the sylvan solitude. Their families being properly housed, the settlers began to think of a school for the instruction of their children. Paper, ink, slates, and pencils, also, were not easily procured.
She said they must make an early start, not knowing how far it was to their day's destination, but which, she believed, from a perusal of her map, was all of twenty-five miles. "The trails are no more than foot-paths and we can make no time, so let's go," she urged.
One thing I thought on wuz the path I wuz a-walkin' on. I d'no as I've mentioned it before, but them foot-paths at the World's Fair are as worthy of attention as anything as there is there. I'll bet Columbus would have been glad to had such paths to walk on when he wuz foot-sore, and tired out.
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