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Show : MISSIONARY LIKES ENGLISH SCENERY Merrill Sandberg, who has been on ! a mission to England, writes the ! News under date of December 7 that he would soon leave for the United States, and expected to be in St. George by the first of the year. His letter continues: "During the time I have been In England, I have learned to love her, with her low rolling hills, the dales, and far reaching moors, her narrow winding streets, lanes and snickets, not forgetting the good roads beautifully beau-tifully fringed with flower and berry bushes. "I really started this letter on the 23rd of November, while I was traveling trav-eling by train to Edinburgh, and I write We have just passed a small village and I noticed the vegetable vender with his small cart and horse. Even though it is raining in torrents. tor-rents. I was about to say, but it doesn't do that over here, he does not hesitate to let the housewives know that he is. about, indeed to stop on account of the rain here would be to get a new occupation. "As we travel on into Scotland, the highlands loom up rather higher than anything I have seen in England, Eng-land, but even then they are insignificant insig-nificant compared to our western mountains. The scenery in Scotland is very beautiful, with its trees, rivers, gorges, etc., more after the order of nature's own handiwork. "Accept my thanks .for your kind- I ness in sending me the Washington County News during my stav in England." |