. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. iink there isno place where the street is straight more than two houses are built on roeks; potatoes are paiirfully andpathetically growing in the crevices of rocks. In the cem-etery we found an old gravestone dated 1G80—forty yearsafter the town was settled. The graves are excavated inthe solid Iock ; the sexton is obliged to resort to blastingpowder whenever there is a death. What do you think of that way of burying? I askedthe drivel. •.>(; MIXI I)(»()!{. Kf the resurrection idee is ti-uc. he said, its nii^ht to
. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. iink there isno place where the street is straight more than two houses are built on roeks; potatoes are paiirfully andpathetically growing in the crevices of rocks. In the cem-etery we found an old gravestone dated 1G80—forty yearsafter the town was settled. The graves are excavated inthe solid Iock ; the sexton is obliged to resort to blastingpowder whenever there is a death. What do you think of that way of burying? I askedthe drivel. •.>(; MIXI I)(»()!{. Kf the resurrection idee is ti-uc. he said, its nii^ht to eaiii en cm lie su|)|iliiM| with a liaml ilrilland one rliari;-! of lilastini: powder, at the xciv least ! When we had dime the town * we went (i\er and ae-(■e])ted the hospitalities of tlu l->astern ^aeht ehd) (in theopposite haid< and listened to the ninsie. and Iowcd hackto the I-aleoii at 1(» oeloek throuuh a lleet o\ ddi-ies. anda larger fleet of jellytish. in whose niai:ie phosphoresc-enttour gig left a luminous i^ OFF THE roAST OF MAINE. nVV THE COAST <»F AfAIXE. TWO BIGHT WHALES. THEY ABE PLAYFL L AND COMPAN-IONABLE. EFFECT OF MABINE FO<JD. WHAT BECAME T THE GOOD BESOLUTIOXS TO STUDY. HABVESTIN TBAWL. QUEER DENIZENS OF THE DEEP. Xext morning the Commodore weighed anchor an«Ifired the cannon in salutation of the queer old town, andsteamed away toward Cape Ann and the coast of said if we kept outside of the Isles of Shoals, andstruck straight across the open sea out of sight of land,we should he likely to see swordfish. sharks, dogfish, black-fish, and the other big fish—maybe whales. And so. verily,we did. Xo shark or swordfish appeared ~ for certain.• _ - we caught glimpses here and there at a distance of - :^ r black fins above the water that might appertain either. The shark and swordfish sometimes lift out of water to see what is going on. the latt _ _his sword an occasional toss into the air: but the _is a bull-
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