Along and we saw the most beautiful birds you can imagine. She knows all about them and is very much interested in them. I had no idea that such gorgeous brilliant coloring existed except in picture-book birds, but with the aid of the glass you could see all the little fellows magnified and brought quite near -- oh those lovely bobolinks and orioles and red wing crows and bluebirds and yellow birds! There were quantities of wild flowers too along the way - conslips, violets, hypatieas, bloodroots, and anemones! As we went on it got more and more hilly and we climbed higher and higher till we were almost to Mohunk. Then we turned back--they neither receive nor dismiss visitors at the Mohunk hotel on the Sabbath day you know. We were good and hungry I’ll tell you when we reached the hotel at New Paltz, and we did justice to an extremely good country dinner there. We all felt in such good spirits after dinner