J < £ CHKIST1À N * Ü ERÀ Î/Ï) O' ♦ •< ~--- ‘V ---- ---------- -—,—- ---- you of th«'1 beautiful elms and maples that cast their grateful shade «ivory where, of the ol«l mon­ ster apple trees that this yi-ar hang full of fruit, of the absence of plank si«l«‘walks, wide walks of much trodden natural earth bordering the roads or streets. Too 'many rocks h«'re for mml like oufs. The river Charles murmprs and ripples on its way toward-th»' seal just a little way down th»' slop»' from this hot«'!, wh i ch Stan «I s rm- th r sit« ■ o f - o ne- o f---- the old taverns whose hanging sign ch»'cr«'«l th«' daily line—of JHartfortl coaclws nearly on«' humlrc«! years ago. Th«' ol«l ston«' walls, the blue- Terri«'s, th<~potato bugs ami apple worms ar«' all new- to, me.- Reu- l«ena was wibl for apph's ami slw l«ought tiv«‘ c«'nts -worth Satunlay,- tluit is four small apples, one of which I ate gi'ee«Tilv, but 1 stopp«'«! to inquire what was wrong with the next, ami Reul»ena mildly sug- gested I would never-know how +nany worms I had eaten. I by two mortals in pursuit of hoard, not a place.” I lost the rest V knowledge y than by us lx'fove reach- of the speech, but I suppos»' he did New England Letters. ing Framingham, where we wer«' to find a place to board or how would change for the accommodation to he have been there; the mention NUMBER I. Wellesley, for. you iinderstaml th«' of Dana Hall was a sort of “open B ailey ’ s H otei ’.,* fast express does not begin to stop | sesame ” to me, for hadn’t I heard .... SuilTlL N \ TI « ■ K, M. ASH ,----- I * .«., ... .... ti '-.'i.. . at small places, tTmugli fTTey ar«' of" its hospitality* till it se<>m<‘f‘ the—Aixpuxixx- shriek of the whistle.■!<>ymi ayuw JL u - however,” and lm d i dr-but hardly- ’ that lande«! Reubena ami myself at that we could scarcely stand when st«ippe«l to ring for us,lie wanted to South Framingham on last Satur- shown to the Framingham waiting get away so. A man’s head at last Down went, Reubena’s appear«'«! at th«' side window asking was very -—but a ilrenni, w«' cam«' so swiftly w i th val i ses and shawl straps upon humbly (old, wh»'n"Tie took our by them, that-break fast at Syra­ them. Those baskets had.traveled cards ami showed us into the par­ lor’ th«' very parlor < ’assie has told cuse, lunch at Albany and supper lw'fore, hers I •- from r,-nrj Lohisiaiuv north, . * < >f tea, brea«l ami butter,telegraphed then to Oregon and back again; UK-of _sa much, ami went to call .1»y Miss- Fastman. That p«»or buly for at Springfie.1,1, ar»' but an indis­ mine, brother hands, ha • ■ -■* - » - • ___ __ - • i unearthly hour. Thy plains •-of Nebraska wore- buy tickets for the train.to Will 's Larians at an lovely in tiieir greenness, bands of lev, which left in fifteen minutes Reultena, in th«' meantime,' was “fat cattle |azily lookt-d "up as we” I The- -agent look»jd^ through“Tus . looking ai>out at "TRe- piano, the still, thopgh I know nearly four passed, while pi-osperity looked wicker window at us curiously and books ami the statues. “ It smells thousand miles are Ixstween us, and forth from homes nestle« 1 in groves smiled a little when we wanted lik«- a school,” she whispere»! ■—Miss the davAVeTame away"seeins . •/ V years tickets to Wellesley. A motherly E. could not k«'ep us ami she said, in the past nlrea«ly, when our little of poplar t.re one was anxious to see for himself place to stay,” we both said in the lights over rich men’s gates looked once in th,' city, twice in Oakland the place brought into such promi­ same breath. “ Yes," the lady tie- like fairy lamps in crystal rims, ami «leliver»'«! two lectures, one nence. A few new roofs were fore mentioned, echoed from across and our hearts forgot to be lonely theological, in. the (krngrogational being put weary «/ healthful, though not rapid in- - “ Not a place, madam ;'why, 1 came Prine»* ha»l not left us at Council you now with its history for ‘ two create. rp They are at the very great Bluffs, an» 1, I think, a dirtier more her«' to Work on Dana Hall, ami «1«» centuries and more that, are «one «lisa« I van tag«* of nmeting in a Hall gnxious half hour was never passed you think I can find a place to at least not now ; hut I want to tell while other rt'ligious bo«lios have Correspondence. ______ - i I V ö . * . '**■■ •» ’ ■ ». ■' ~ : •'«*». • ................. - ; * CT y » • * ■ • <. f A* W> V,k . CT f