. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . men and hotel boys who crowfwharf. But for us, at least, the bark of the tooter is worse th?bite, and handing our baggage checks to a man whose cap be-name we want, we are soon rattling up the hill in a half-fr?cession of buckboards and dog-carts, phaetons, and rowhich deploy at the top of the street, and go plungin^various hotels as if panic-stricken. This main front street is set with fantastic shopsare conducted by leading Boston dealers. The Yare do
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . men and hotel boys who crowfwharf. But for us, at least, the bark of the tooter is worse th?bite, and handing our baggage checks to a man whose cap be-name we want, we are soon rattling up the hill in a half-fr?cession of buckboards and dog-carts, phaetons, and rowhich deploy at the top of the street, and go plungin^various hotels as if panic-stricken. This main front street is set with fantastic shopsare conducted by leading Boston dealers. The Yare down in this democratic, level end of town; .are crowded with people in comfortably neglige attiwith welcoming curiosity as we hurry past. One ofthese hotels, standing on the front street and lookinjfactory than a hotel, save for its spacious portico anis thus spoken of by Charles Dudley Warner: —r W. 57 ing house, hesitating whether to be a hotel or not; a SO-^-y^^^^^J^relp-your;elf sort of place, which is ^^^^^^ 1^^^^^^::^^ ^,..„... .. drifts into it first or last. Some ^a> it is an character, and everybody drifts. acquired taste: that people do not take to it at first. The big office isa sort of assembly-room, where new arrivals are scanned and dis- 58 covered, and it is unblushingly called the fish-pond b} the youngladies who daily angle there. We didnt wonder at his first impres-sion, as we dashed by and got a glimpse of a bewildering number ofslim, pretty girls, nonchalant young fellows in lawn-tennis suits, andindefinite opportunities in the halls and parlors and wide piazzas forpromenades and flirtations. No hiding-place is this for mournful fate, No sorrow here is guest;These summer palaces are dedicate To pleasure and to fashion plumes her brilliant, airy wing And brightens sea and shore,A rainbow-colored, transitory thing, Now here, now seen no with the brief, exotic revelry, Of this ephemeral train,In proud delight the cit
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