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The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, May 3, 1962, page 71 (of 73)

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POWERFUL EASY WAY TO MOW Springfield

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Walking

Continued from page 33 soups, meat concentrates, instant potato, and tea bags. For cooking, I carry a tiny gasoline-burning pressure stove. In bad weather I may put up for the night at a motel, but I much prefer just to roll out my sleeping bag at a convenient spot. Sometimes I open my eyes in the morning to see a rabbit bobbing and nibbling his way through breakfast. Once I woke at dawn to find, 10 feet from my head, a doe browsing among dew-covered ferns. And the days go on the same way. I lunch beside a frog as he drowses away his noon on a midstream stone. I watch a turtle investigating the secrets of an underwater rock. I drop down into fields, and from a rich-smelling farmyard there erupt toward me a posse of clean brown chickens, hopeful for grain. AFTER A WEEKEND of walking, I am happy in the knowledge that I have traveled with all five senses alert. I remember catching the scent of wild strawberries as I forded a tinkling creek; I recall their velvet sweetness on my tongue as I leaned against rough, sun-warmed granite. I am tired with the satisfying tiredness that comes after a long tramp—as far removed from the exhaustion after a day's drive as a waltz is from St. Vitus's dance. Finally there are the amplified pleasures. In everyday life, taking off your socks is an unnoticed chore; peeling them off after a day's walk is sheer delight. And no caviar ever tasted better than my pemmican and dehydrated potatoes. But you do not have to tramp 20 miles to rediscover the lost art of walking. Not long ago I suggested to a stenographer friend that instead of driving six blocks to buy low-calorie food she should walk to the store—and then walk back empty-handed. As a joke, she did. Now she has given up strict dieting, walks short distances whenever she can, and is both slimmer and fitter. Another friend, a tool-and-die maker who knows his own mind, sold his car after a disagreement with an insurance company. He be-

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Gardening 'N Workshop News

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A new poem by Robert Frost Humor by Edward Streeter author of "Chairman of the Bored" Patio planning by Edward Durell Stone Vacations • Beauty • Barbecues Summer Drinks • Outdoor Weddings And "The Town That Bought a Country Club"

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