The Pine-tree coast . e alow and aloft as when she first wenl tostanding up on the reef as straight as a monument. Alter many trials thevessel was pulled off, much to the disappointment of the Land-sharks alongshore, who look upon a wreck as their peculiar prey. A Btrange Bort of ethics,t ruly ! If a man should be caught in the act of robbing a wrecked railway t rain,he would deserve to be lynched on the spot, and public sentiment would doubt-less justify the saving of time and trouble to the state. But if some unluckyshin meets a like fate, under conditions involving peril, hardship, and even
The Pine-tree coast . e alow and aloft as when she first wenl tostanding up on the reef as straight as a monument. Alter many trials thevessel was pulled off, much to the disappointment of the Land-sharks alongshore, who look upon a wreck as their peculiar prey. A Btrange Bort of ethics,t ruly ! If a man should be caught in the act of robbing a wrecked railway t rain,he would deserve to be lynched on the spot, and public sentiment would doubt-less justify the saving of time and trouble to the state. But if some unluckyshin 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. Misfortunes Rockswould 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. wool. INLAND 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 buffetingBurge. Between these bare ridges the sea, has scooped out ragged coves, con-aected them by natural causeways of loose pebbles, and in a manner walled upthe marshes against its own assaults. The outlook is now toward lUddeford It should he 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 Tool by anarrow isthmus, has given up sonic of its secrets that had lain buried no oneknows how long. In an autumnal gale last year this beach was deeply washed 114 THE PINE-TREE COAST. out by the fl
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