rving's dear old Dutch house is
like a beautiful living body with his memory
for its soul" 190

"The old Dutch Church at Tarrytown" 197

The Hudson River

"When we came into sudden sight of the river
there was a magical effect" 207

Delaware Water Gap
"Winding and wonderful it was in beauty" 213

"The mountains seem cleft in twain. It's a
marvellous effect--startling" 216

York
A bit of the rock-bound Maine coast 303

"The air is spiced with the fragrance of balsam
fir...on the way to Crawford Notch" 310

"The young, slender birches of the mountain
wayside" 319

Crawford's Notch, White Mountains 324

"I shall always think of Vermont as the State
of wild lawns and gardens" 330

"We found the Green Mountains particularly
lovable" 336

Captain Winston's maps pages 90, 114, 132, 209,
216, 239, 258, 295, 311, 325, 331, and 339

THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR DISCOVERS AMERICA

I

THE HONBLE MRS. WINSTON (NEE MOLLY
RANDOLPH) TO HER FRIEND, THE
COUNTESS OF LANE

_On Board SS. Evangeline,_
_March 15th._

DEAREST MERCEDES:

It will be days, also nights (worse luck, for my cabin chirps like a
cricket, sings like a canary, and does a separate realistic imitation of
each animal in the Zoo!), before we get to New York. But I have crochet
cramp and worsted wrist from finishing a million scarfs since we sailed,
so I feel it will ease the strain to begin a letter to you. I dare say,
anyhow, I shan't close it till the last minute, with a P. S. to say
we're arriving safely--_if_ we do! One never knows nowadays. And we have
on board a man who's been torpedoed twice. I hope he isn't the kind to
whom everything happens in threes. By the way, he's the Ship's Mystery,
and this letter can't be a complete record of the voyage unless I tell
you about him. _Place aux dames_, however. There's a girl I want to tell
you about first. Or had I better polish off our own family history and
make a clean sweep of ourselves before beginning on anybody else? On