The Pine-tree coast . CHAPTER IX. » OX OLD ORCHARD BEACH. And all impatient of dry land, agree With one consent, to rash into the sea. — Cowper. OLD ORCHARD BEACH unites two historic settlements. This was thethoroughfare by which the old-time traveller, who had just crossed theSaco at the lower ferry, rode on to Pine Point, to be again ferried overthe Dunstan to Scarborough. Certes, it was no holiday promenade when thewayfarer ran the risk of leaving his bones to moulder away among the sand-drifts we see heaped at the top of the beach! A gunshot, a puff of smoke,and it was all over with him. Y
The Pine-tree coast . CHAPTER IX. » OX OLD ORCHARD BEACH. And all impatient of dry land, agree With one consent, to rash into the sea. — Cowper. OLD ORCHARD BEACH unites two historic settlements. This was thethoroughfare by which the old-time traveller, who had just crossed theSaco at the lower ferry, rode on to Pine Point, to be again ferried overthe Dunstan to Scarborough. Certes, it was no holiday promenade when thewayfarer ran the risk of leaving his bones to moulder away among the sand-drifts we see heaped at the top of the beach! A gunshot, a puff of smoke,and it was all over with him. Yet we often read in the old chronicles of suchor such a man being shot down on Saco sands, like a sandpiper nowadays, byhunters who were after human game. The prowling redskin sprang from hislair, tomahawk in hand, neatly flayed off his victims scalp, waved it aloft with acry of triumph, and so added one more deed of blood to the annals of the beach. Thomas Rogers, one of the earliest settlers here, who lived near
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