Let Me Show You Vermont (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Let Me Show You VermontWhatever IS To BE the reception given this book outside the state it describes, there is no doubt about its welcome in Ver mont. No, not as you might think (if you come from a booster state) because we can count on its author always to praise Vermont and its ways. We can't. And we wouldn't like it if we could, brought up as we have been on axioms like praise to the face is open disgrace. Mr. Crane is a Ver monter if there ever was one, loves our small mountain home, and likes Vermonters but he has no illusions about its being more beautiful than Switzerland, nor about any unnatural degree of intelligence or integrity on the part of its inhabitants. In his chapter on The Animal Kingdom he slips in with relish the fact that when the L'egislature votes too high a bounty on hedgehogs, those animals are sometimes thriftily reared in secret on back-road farms, to get the bounty. And in the same chapter, he notes that the Vermont laws protecting animal life are made mostly for the express purpose of giving men the pleasure of cutting that life short, and sardonically quotes the passage about the Walrus who wept so copiously in sympathy with the Oysters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.