Identifier: throughwildsreco00farrrich (find matches)
Title: Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893
Subjects: New Hampshire -- Description and travel Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ts symmetry, and the proud grace with which its airy citadelis sustained against the sky. And by way of desert to this substantial feast ofmountain grandeur, a most charming view of the curves of the Androscogginfor twenty miles, of its exquisite islands, and of the meadows which it threaas,is given from Mount Hayes. At one oclock the boys ate their lunch, the bracing mountainair giving them a keen appetite, and they looked regretfully aithe empty paper bags when they threw them away. I declare, 1 havent had half dinner enough, m_urmuredDick, looking wistfully at a fragment of doughnut that the Parsonheld between his thumb and forefinger. Havent you? said Fred; then take this piece of doughnut.I should hate to see you starve. Dick reached for the doughnut, but just as his fingers wereabout to grasp it, Fred threw it into his mouth, exclaiming ashe tucked it away under his left cheek, — Now you see it, and now you dont, and he gave Dick acomical wink, as he swallowed the last morsel.
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70 THROUGH THE WILDS. That was a mean trick, Parson, declared Dick, and I oweyou one. Well, I am safe, then, for you was never known to payanything you owe. The others laughed at this sally, and then the boys strolledall over the top of the mountain, stopping here and there toobtain views in different directions, and in a couple of hoursfound themselves once more at the ruins of the hotel. They satdown on one of the fallen timbers to rest before commencinof thedescent. What a pretty place this is! said George. I wonder thatsome one does not erect another hotel. I should think a car-riage road might be built up here with less trouble and expensethan up Mount Washington, and one could obtain a nice viewfrom here a great many days when they could see nothing fromthe summits of the higher mountains. That is so, assented Ned; and perhaps the next time wecome up this way, there will be one. But suppose we startdown now: I begin to feel hungry again. Hungry! cried Dick, as they arose to thei

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