NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE There is romance in the very look of the land of which I write. Beauty beyond belief, of a sort to make your breath come more quickly; and drama--comedy or tragedy according to the eye and the mood of the seer. Loneliness and comradeship, peace and conflict, friendship and enmity, gayety and somberness, laughter and tears. The bold hills, little cousins to the mountains, crowd close round each village; the clear brooks thread wood and meadow; the birches and scrub hardwood are taking back the abandoned farms. When the sun drops low in the west there is a strange and moving purple tinge upon t…
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