Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . e crumbling stones of an ancient Gods acrepreserve, in quaint phrase and eccentric rhyme, the memoriesof departed worthies, some of whom worshiped in a rudemeeting-house hard by, while sentinels watched for the ap-proach of prowling Pequots. The meeting-house has van-ished as entirely as the Pequot. The modern church hasusurped its place. But, just as the name of the Mohegansis preserved by a few descendants to the northward, so theearlier life of this seaport town is embalmed in its buildingsscattered her
Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . e crumbling stones of an ancient Gods acrepreserve, in quaint phrase and eccentric rhyme, the memoriesof departed worthies, some of whom worshiped in a rudemeeting-house hard by, while sentinels watched for the ap-proach of prowling Pequots. The meeting-house has van-ished as entirely as the Pequot. The modern church hasusurped its place. But, just as the name of the Mohegansis preserved by a few descendants to the northward, so theearlier life of this seaport town is embalmed in its buildingsscattered here and there, the old side by side with the of Indian stratagem and Revolutionary warfareand tales of the stirring days when New Londons wharveswere lined with whalers and merchant-vessels are repre-sented by the odd old buildings which the passer-by scansaskance. Outside the town the contrast continues. An-cient gambrel-roofed cottages look down from the hillsupon Newport-like villas and velvet lawns, and a stonedwelling which might pass for the tower of the Master of 366. BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS Ravens wood stands within rifle-shot of a beach calledthe Coney Island of Connecticut. But this is not the New London of the boat-race excur-sionist. For him there waits the brilliant spectacle of a greatrace which can be seen under favorable conditions. On theeventful day he finds himself four miles up the river, eager-ly scanning the red-roofed cottage across the water, or theboat-house farther up, below Yales quarters on the point,until at last he sees stalwart student-oarsmen appearing onthe floats, while the sunlight glistens on the polished shellsraised in air for a moment, then tenderly lowered to thewater. Now the two boats shoot across the river, wel-comed lustily by the gaily beribboned throng which fillsthe long line of observation-cars. Suddenly the cheers die away. The crews are inline. Behind them are sixty years of rivalry. Beforethem the silvery pathway of the
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