Scribner's magazine . hey stowthemselves away and hangthemselves up on pegs untilthey may come into their ow^nagain. Here and there a na-tive cottage has been boughtand altered by a summer resi-dent, and over the whole thereis the peculiarly smug expres-sion of a quarter w^hich is ac- *customed to put its best footforemost for a few months ofthe year. But in the backlanes and side-streets there are still the conditions of the small NewEngland community, in which land ispoor and work is slack during the longwinter, so that although there is no ab-jecrt poverty in the sense in which it isknown t
Scribner's magazine . hey stowthemselves away and hangthemselves up on pegs untilthey may come into their ow^nagain. Here and there a na-tive cottage has been boughtand altered by a summer resi-dent, and over the whole thereis the peculiarly smug expres-sion of a quarter w^hich is ac- *customed to put its best footforemost for a few months ofthe year. But in the backlanes and side-streets there are still the conditions of the small NewEngland community, in which land ispoor and work is slack during the longwinter, so that although there is no ab-jecrt poverty in the sense in which it isknown to cities, there is also little timeor inclination for the mere prettinessesof life. An element of the picturesque issupplied by an Indian camp, which usedfor years to be pitched in a marshy fieldknown as Squaw Hollow ; but with theadvent of a Village Improvement Soci-ety certain new-fangled and disturbingideas as to sanitary conditions oljtaineda hearing, and the Indians were ban-ished to a back road out of the way of. Canoeing. 272 BAR HARBOR sensitive eves and noses. They claim ui-ed balls of fat in all shades of yellowto be of the Passamaquoddy tribe, and brown—roll al)Out in close friend-speak their own language, and follow ship with queer little dogs, in whichthe i)eaceful trades of basket-weaving, the absence of breed produces a familymoccasin-making, and the building of likeness. It is curious to see in the -^ f]
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