The Pine-tree coast . the steady rush and ceaselessroar of the breakers, as they came up fifteen feet high against the beach, wasechoed along the coast, was in the air, and seemed the voice of the storm cryingno quarter to the groaning land. Would that I might describe those roaringmonsters that shook the solid earth with the weight of their fall! Vainattempt! Three ranks deep, heaped up all the way from Ireland, they droveon up the beach, which seemed to shrink before their daring advance. Then,as they broke, they deluged the shores with rivers of foam that ran seething,bubbling, and hissing
The Pine-tree coast . the steady rush and ceaselessroar of the breakers, as they came up fifteen feet high against the beach, wasechoed along the coast, was in the air, and seemed the voice of the storm cryingno quarter to the groaning land. Would that I might describe those roaringmonsters that shook the solid earth with the weight of their fall! Vainattempt! Three ranks deep, heaped up all the way from Ireland, they droveon up the beach, which seemed to shrink before their daring advance. Then,as they broke, they deluged the shores with rivers of foam that ran seething,bubbling, and hissing about, till the force that had launched them spent itself,and they were swept back, exhausted, into the jaws of the coming wave. This gale will long be remembered for its disastrous effects. Hardlywithin the memory of man has so much sea-stuff come on shore, or have thefarmers reaped such a rich harvest. All the cottages standing along the water,front showed the effects of hard usage. Bulkheads were wrecked, outhouses. ON U> ORCHARD BEA( II 129 turned round, awnings, platforms, and walks carried away, while the wet sandlay in unsightly heaps about the house doors, Borne of which had been Eoiopen by tin- winds and waves. All this indicated that, the danger limit hadbeen reached when the gale was at its height. The few people who remainedin their houses passed a night of terror in listening to the wash of the wbeneath them, till the turning of the tide relieved their fears for the time; andfor once it was Old Orchard on theses without any straining of the situation. At low tide the sea stood at the point ordinarily reached by tin- mark was indicated byawindrow of seaweed, mixed with broken-upwoodwork, lying quite high up beyond the first line of houses. A morebegone spectacle than this washed-out village presented would he hard to imagine,and yet it had its ludicrous side, too, in the numerous signs displayed on allsides of Ice Cold Soda Water, Bathing Suits t
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