Seventh Heaven of delight. I think I got a picture of a few of the
"Heavy weights" including a Wadsworth
on his big cream-colored "December" who took a first prize. We were
there three hours and I enjoyed it every minute. Saw a good many
people I knew and knew of and last of all
Helen Noyes Baker. It was a crowd of three kinds of
people - the "gentlemen riders" or "Swells" and their friends and various
city people from everywhere - the farmers and all their accessories,
down to the poor old plug in a burlap blanket with hardly animation
enough to look at his beautiful hunter-cousins and then the callow
"Normalites" - who "talked shop" and looked it every minute. I liked the
swells best, but the farmers weren't half bad- and I couldn't stand
the normalites - and by the way - the beautiful horses weren't all
inside the ropes - and I had more than one velvet nose nestling in my hand
& smoothed many a satin neck as I squeezed between the traps up
to the rope. We had to come away about four - for we had to go up the hill
and down again to get to the station - tho' it was only a little way
- across lots - but I was willing - and more - for the sake of seeing the
dear valley again - all flooded with afternoon sunshine. Our train
left at quarter of five and we had a pleasant ride down, reaching
Rochester at 5:55 and
Seventh Heaven of delight. I think I got a picture of a few of the
"Heavy weights" including a Wadsworth
on his big cream-colored "December" who took a first prize. We were
there three hours and I enjoyed it every minute. Saw a good many
people I knew and knew of and last of all
Helen Noyes Baker. It was a crowd of three kinds of
people - the "gentlemen riders" or "Swells" and their friends and various
city people from everywhere - the farmers and all their accessories,
down to the poor old plug in a burlap blanket with hardly animation
enough to look at his beautiful hunter-cousins and then the callow
"Normalites" - who "talked shop" and looked it every minute. I liked the
swells best, but the farmers weren't half bad- and I couldn't stand
the normalites - and by the way - the beautiful horses weren't all
inside the ropes - and I had more than one velvet nose nestling in my hand
& smoothed many a satin neck as I squeezed between the traps up
to the rope. We had to come away about four - for we had to go up the hill
and down again to get to the station - tho' it was only a little way
- across lots - but I was willing - and more - for the sake of seeing the
dear valley again - all flooded with afternoon sunshine. Our train
left at quarter of five and we had a pleasant ride down, reaching
Rochester at 5:55 and
Seventh Heaven of delight. I think I got a picture of a few of the
"Heavy weights" including a Wadsworth
on his big cream-colored "December" who took a first prize. We were
there three hours and I enjoyed it every minute. Saw a good many
people I knew and knew of and last of all
Helen Noyes Baker. It was a crowd of three kinds of
people - the "gentlemen riders" or "Swells" and their friends and various
city people from everywhere - the farmers and all their accessories,
down to the poor old plug in a burlap blanket with hardly animation
enough to look at his beautiful hunter-cousins and then the callow
"Normalites" - who "talked shop" and looked it every minute. I liked the
swells best, but the farmers weren't half bad- and I couldn't stand
the normalites - and by the way - the beautiful horses weren't all
inside the ropes - and I had more than one velvet nose nestling in my hand
& smoothed many a satin neck as I squeezed between the traps up
to the rope. We had to come away about four - for we had to go up the hill
and down again to get to the station - tho' it was only a little way
- across lots - but I was willing - and more - for the sake of seeing the
dear valley again - all flooded with afternoon sunshine. Our train
left at quarter of five and we had a pleasant ride down, reaching
Rochester at 5:55 and
