The Pine-tree coast . and aloft as when she first went to sea,standing up on the reef as straight as a monument. After many trials thevessel was pulled off, mucli to the disappointment of the land-sharks alongshore, who look upon a wreck as their peculiar prey. A strange sort of ethics,truly ! If a man should be caught in the act of robbing a wrecked railway train,he would deserve to be lynched on the spot, and public sentiment would dou])t-less justify the saving of time and trouble to the state. But if some iinluckyship meets a like fate, under conditions involving peril, hardship, and evenl
The Pine-tree coast . and aloft as when she first went to sea,standing up on the reef as straight as a monument. After many trials thevessel was pulled off, mucli to the disappointment of the land-sharks alongshore, who look upon a wreck as their peculiar prey. A strange sort of ethics,truly ! If a man should be caught in the act of robbing a wrecked railway train,he would deserve to be lynched on the spot, and public sentiment would dou])t-less justify the saving of time and trouble to the state. But if some iinluckyship meets a like fate, under conditions involving peril, hardship, and evenlife itself, the unwritten code of the shore delivers her up to be plundered bythe first comers. That code needs revising. It is only half a mile or so more to the summer colony at Fortunes Rocks,though quite two miles by the usually travelled road. Misfoi-tunes Eockswould seem a more appropriate name, for a worse place for a ship to strike oncould hardly be found in a days journey. For this very reason, however, it is. exceedingly picturesque. If one could fancy a gigantic skeleton hand protrud-ing above the sand and shingle, the fingers would crudely represent the knobbedridges of hard granite that are spread apart here in the midst of a buffetingsurge. Between these bare ridges the sea has scooped out ragged coves, con-nected them by natural causeways of loose pebbles, and in a manner walled u]ithe marshes against its own assaults. The outlook is now toward Biddeford Pool.^ It should be explained thatthis name has attached itself to the contiguous shores as well as to the basinthey enclose, so that when one asks for the Pool, the village is invariablypointed out, the dry land and not the water. The beach lying out before us, and joining the mainland with the Pool by isthmus, has given up some of its secrets that had lain Iniried no oneknows how long. In an autumnal gale last year this beach was deeply washed 114 THE PINE-TREE COAST. out by the floods of water poured
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