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PASSACONAWAY IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS by Charles Edward Beals, Jr. (pseud.) William James Sidis © 1916 |
INTRODUCTION
The young man who wrote this book commenced his explorations of Passaconaway-land when four years old, at which mature age he climbed to the "turn of the slide" on Mount Passaconaway. With him it was a case of "love at first sight." He cannot remember when he did not love the White Mountains. And with each succeeding year, that feeling has deepened. How the world looks from a Beal-loved little mountain nest―"Score-o'-Peaks"―the youngster will tell. If, by his chapters, he shall succeed in imparting to some weary soul a tithe of the pleasure which has been experienced by one family during nearly a score of summers, I shall think that it was indeed a happy inspiration which led me to suggest to the lad that he record the things herein set down.
Charles E. Beals.
"Score-o' Peaks,"
Passaconaway, N. H.
The Junior's birthday anniversary, 1916.