his
sword, and caught it, saying, Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when
I fall, I shall arise; and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which
made him give back, as one that had received his mortal wound. Christian
perceiving that, made at him again, saying, Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. And with that
Apollyon spread forth his dragon wings, and sped him away, that
Christian saw him no more_."

"And Christian saw him no more!" With the thrill that those words bring
the years fall away and again a boy's eyes are wide in wonder at the
mystery of the world. Then the lake. It was not muddy to the gaze of
youth. Instead, it was of a crystal clearness that sparkled in the
summer sunshine, and the ride in the swan-boats was a joyous adventure,
just as it was a little later to the little girls who owed it to the
knightly bounty of Mr. Cortlandt Van Bibber. And what was better than
the hours in the Menagerie, when the antics of the monkeys provoked
side-splitting laughter, and to stand steady close before the cage when
the lions stretched and roared was to feel the thrill of a young
Tartarin? "Now, this is something like a hunt!" Times change, and
conditions change, and aspects change, but it is we who change most of
all, and Romance is still there, given the eyes of youth with which to
see it.

[Illustration: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ON THE SITE OF WHAT WAS
ONCE THE DEER PARK, HAD ITS ORIGIN IN A MEETING OF THE ART COMMITTEE OF
THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB IN NOVEMBER, 1869]

But back to our sheep and to the Avenue. At the south-east corner of
Sixty-second Street is the Knickerbocker Club, which moved there a few
years ago from the home it held so long at the Avenue and Thirty-second
Street, but before it is reached are passed the residences of Mrs. J.A.
Bostwick (800), Mrs. Fitch Gilbert (801), William Emlen Roosevelt (804),
and William Lanman Bull (805). On Sixty-second Street, near the
Knickerbocker, is the house of the late Joseph H. Choate. Continuing
along the Avenue to Sixty-eighth Street the residences are: Mrs.
Hamilton Fish (810), Francis L. Loring (811), George G. McMurty (813),
Robert L. Gerry (816), Clifford V. Brokaw (825), Henry Mortimer Brooks
(826), William Guggenheim (833), Frank Jay Gould (834), Frederick
Lewisohn (835), Mrs. Isadore Wormser (836), Mrs. William Watts Sherman
(838), Vincent Astor (840), Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, south-east corner
of Sixty