The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . morning to be counted in,after which he can goabout his own business and never attend to the fishing at all, those who really fish re-ceiving two shares. The writer has talked with a man who,as a boy, used to hustle out in the early morning, show himselfat the counting in and then get back in time for school. Themoney thus received, together with that earned by cranberrypicking and in other ways, paid for the lads educ
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . morning to be counted in,after which he can goabout his own business and never attend to the fishing at all, those who really fish re-ceiving two shares. The writer has talked with a man who,as a boy, used to hustle out in the early morning, show himselfat the counting in and then get back in time for school. Themoney thus received, together with that earned by cranberrypicking and in other ways, paid for the lads education and puthim on his feet. TO THE LAGOON. Now come we back to the village for the start up least for up island after we get through with the Lagoonand round there. One of the most attractive views to be had in all this regionis offered by Mount Aidworth as the knoll just southeast ofthe State Road and on the edge of the village is called. At ourfeet is spread a wonderful panorama beginning with the vil-lage tucked into the cove of which Huzzletons Head is the farpoint, then the harbor with the distance bounded by the Cape, VINEYARD HAVEN NEE HOLMES HOLE. 129. Tlie Beacli Road troni Mount Aldwoitli. the Beach Road andthe beach foreshorteneduntil it looks like thescratchy attempt of achild that for the firsttime tries a pencil, whiledistant Eastville sawsthe skyline. Still to the right liesthe Lagoon and CedarNeck and more Lagoon,and beyond the far country which rolls over to Oak Bluffs and Farm Neck. In the foreground swells the land, still much as the ice age left it, seamed with walls, whose stones came down with the ice from Boston way, making one think that some giant Bos- tonian has spilled his Sunday morning breakfast of baked beans. This neigh-borhood is really the site of the earli-est settlement on the harbor, and two of the old houses stand at the waters edge,
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