Book of the Royal blue (1897) (14738450646)

Identifier: bookofroyalblue05balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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CYCLE. H our respects in this maimer to quite anumber. A bovine blockade lield us upfor about five minutes just outside of Ab-bottstown, a farmers lad askinff us to waituntil he had stowed his charges safely awayin pasture. A feature of the sign-boards along theroad beyond New O.xford is that everyroad to the right seems to lead to Hunters-town, and the distance always seems to betwo miles. Indeed, we counted fully halfa dozen signs which bore the legend—Hunterstown—2 miles, and just as we We did a little highway robbery stuntwhile enjoying the view from the top ofthe hill. A bakers wagon coming fromGettysburg, where its hard-working driverhad possibly been delivering his waressince long before dawn, was slowly ap-proaching the summit, and as it passed uswe saw that the driver was asleep. Bartlooked over the tail-board and descried abasket half full of ginger cakes. Weneeded the cakes; but the man was asleep,and it was a shame to wake him—and,well, we took a half dozen each, and
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THE HOISES ARE IJLEI) ONK ON .\NOTHEK. were wondering whether there were anyother towns in that section we arrived atthe top of a long grade, and there, spreadout before us, lay the entire battlefield ofGettysburg, peaceful and quiet in theSabbath stillness. Just here we passed anancient house, built by one of the originalsettlers over a century ago, and just be-yond we stopped to examine a mile-stoneon which was roughly chiseled Phila.130 m. There is no similar stone, thatwe saw, within thirty-five or forty miles.We wondered who put it there, andwhether there had been others in the longago. enjoyed them. They tasted especiallygood, for some reason. Arriving in Gettysburg about 10 a. m.,we hied us to the Ragle House and had abath and shave before dinner. We werethe first ones in the dining room, for wewanted to do the battlefield in oneafternoon, if possible, and that necessitatedan early start. We were advised to leaveour motorcycles at the hotel, and makethe rounds in the trolley ca