. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. ound Xew ^ork is liveliei* and more cheerful. There isonly one amusement in Xantucket—only one excitement—that is the arrival of the daily l)oat. It is a thrilling Clark, the town crier, used to watch from the tallTnitaiian church (Xantucket is dreadfully ungodly, l)y theway—half the people are Unitarians), and when he spiedthe tall column of smoke westward he wound his fish-hornin a stentorian toot, rushed madly u)! the street and ranghis bell and sciennied that the boat was in! The veteranwhalers would I hen enthusiastically start, th
. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. ound Xew ^ork is liveliei* and more cheerful. There isonly one amusement in Xantucket—only one excitement—that is the arrival of the daily l)oat. It is a thrilling Clark, the town crier, used to watch from the tallTnitaiian church (Xantucket is dreadfully ungodly, l)y theway—half the people are Unitarians), and when he spiedthe tall column of smoke westward he wound his fish-hornin a stentorian toot, rushed madly u)! the street and ranghis bell and sciennied that the boat was in! The veteranwhalers would I hen enthusiastically start, the village resi-dents go on a rmi. tlie merchants lock u]) their stores andhurriedly seek the wbai-l. and the suinmer-boaiders, hat-less and iierspii-ing, cdnie boundini; down over the grass fisiiim; koi; cod. 1!) tli;it i;i(i\v> rank lictwccn the lohhlc-stdius. to i)iirtioi|)attill tlu only soul-st irrin^ event of the day. As the localpaper says. From (he deek of llie Itoat the seeiie wasaiiiniated and inspiring heyond •M FOLKS Xi:.\r I)()()!{. AlJorXI) (AIM-: COD. wATTixo FOi; i!i;i:akiah((l (heirniornin,as jol) of swahhiou the deck and |iolishin,u the hiasstalfrail that runs around it. ihey had done the earlierwork of washing the whole of the sides of ihe yaeht andruhhing with chamois-skin all the windows. \\e werespeeding too fast to fish, though the sea was smo(!th asglass, so we lay off in our steamer-ehairs and wasted timein mere listless enjoyment. Our consciences have now he-come so callous that we can do this S(n-t of thing every dayfor hours at a time without feeling at all guilty, it ispossihle that some of
Size: 2127px × 1175px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectmexicod, bookyear1904
