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FIVE DAYS ON MOUNT MANSFIELD.
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"Lead him through the lovely mountain-paths,
And talk to him of things at hand and common."
Matthew Arnold.
I went up the mountain from the village of Stowe in very ignoble1 fashion,—in a wagon2,—and was three hours on the passage. One of the "hands" at the Summit House occupied the front seat with the driver, and we were hardly out of the village before a seasonable toothache put him in mind of his pipe. Would smoking be offensive to me? he inquired. What could I say, having had an aching tooth before now myself? It was a pleasure almost beyond the luxury of breathing mountain air to see the misery3 of a fellow-mortal so quickly assuaged4. The driver, a sturdy young Vermonter, was a man of different spirit. He had never used tobacco nor drunk a glass of "liquor," I heard him saying. Somebody had once offered him fifty cents to smoke a cigar.
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"Why didn't you take it?" asked his companion in a tone of wonder.
"Well, I'm not that kind of a fellow, to be bought for fifty cents."
As we approached the base of the mountain, a white-throated sparrow was piping by the roadside.
"I love to hear that bird sing," said the driver.
It was now my turn to be surprised. Our man of principle was also a man of sentiment.
"What do you call him?" I inquired, as soon as I could recover myself.
"Whistling Jack," he answered; a new name to me, and a good one; it would take a nicer ear than mine to discriminate5 with certainty between a white-throat's voice and a school-boy's whistle.
The morning had promised well, but before we emerged from the forest as we neared the summit we drove into a cloud, and, shortly afterward6, into a pouring rain. In the office of the hotel I found a company of eight persons, four men and four women, drying themselves about the stove. They had left a village twenty miles away at two [Pg 92] o'clock that morning in an open wagon for an excursion to the summit. Like myself, they had driven into a cloud, and up to this time had seen nothing more distant than the stable just across the road, within a stone's toss of the window, and even that only by glimpses. One of the party was a doctor, who must be at home that night. Hour after hour they watched the clouds, or rather the rain (we were so beclouded that the clouds could not be seen), and debated the situation. Finally, at three o'clock, they got into their open wagon, the rain
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| adj.不光彩的,卑鄙的;可耻的 | |
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simplicity
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tranquillity
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industrious
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panorama
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fragrance
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waxy
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