FROM TIDEWAY TO TIDEWAY (1892)
FROM TIDEWAY TO TIDEWAY (1892) - IN SIGHT OF MONADNOCK
_ After the gloom of gray Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, ‘This isn‘t a sample of our really fine days. Wait until such and such times come, or go to such and a such a quarter of the city.‘ We were content, and more than content, to drift aimlessly up and down the brilliant streets, wondering a little why the finest light should be wasted on the worst pavements in the world； to walk round and round Madison Square, because that was full of beautifully dressed babies playing counting-out games, or to gaze reverently at the broad-shouldered, pug-nosed Irish New York policemen. Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted, working nine hours a day, with the colour and the clean-cut lines of perspective that he makes. That any one should dare to call thi

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