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Tonight we'll read a short story by John Burrows called The Exhyleration of the Road.

It is taken from a compilation titled The Foot Pathway. An anthology for Walkers published in 1911.

John Burrows was an American nature essayist,

active in the U.S. Conservation Movement.

Burrows accompanied many personalities of the time in his later years, including Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, who gave him an automobile, and Thomas

Edison.

According to Ford, John Burroughs, Edison, and I made several Vagabond trips together.

We went in motor caravans and slept under canvas.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, Now take a few deep breaths. The exhilaration of the road.

Occasionally, on the sidewalk, amid the dapper,

swiftly moving high-heeled boots and gators, I catch a glimpse of the naked human foot.

Nimbly, it scuffs along, the toes spread, the sides flatten, the heel protrudes. It

grasps the curbing or bends to the form of the uneven surfaces, a thing sensuous and alive that seems to take

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