Old Paths and Legends of New England: Saunterings Over Historic Roads, with Glimpses of Picturesque Fields and Old Homesteads in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
Old Paths and Legends of New England: Saunterings Over Historic Roads, with Glimpses of Picturesque Fields and Old Homesteads in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...inland folk are always starved for just one whiff of the sea. Delightful opportunities are offered them by to-day's rapid transit. So many more jolly youngsters can be tucked into a private car than when, in the good, slow times, we children climbed helter-skelter at sunrise into the big threeseated wagon in company ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...inland folk are always starved for just one whiff of the sea. Delightful opportunities are offered them by to-day's rapid transit. So many more jolly youngsters can be tucked into a private car than when, in the good, slow times, we children climbed helter-skelter at sunrise into the big threeseated wagon in company with a "hunkin '" bushel-basket of pies, raised doughnuts, spiced cake, cookies, and bottled coffee. A laughable mishap it was to find our cream churned to butter from jolting on a short-cut through the blackberry pasture and over the beach stones. Not one child will forget that enchanting sound of rubbing pebbles drawn by the ebbing tide; or the white curl of green, cavern-like breakers tumbling over one another on a hotsand floor; such a jolly place to build castles, by and by to be captured and swallowed up by greedy old ocean! On the "Beach Road" to Hampton, approaching the "Great Elm," is Great Ox Common, where colonial cows were allowed to go "a shack." This land was held in common by the pioneers, who followed Father Bachiler 1 from "Ould" Newbury to Hampton or Winnicunnet (beautiful place of pines), never heeding Captain John Mason's protest against their intruding on his grand American domain in our present New Hampshire. 1 The Rev. Stephen Bachiler, a gifted preacher, "was a man of devoted service, in spite of the dishonor with which he afterward let his name be shadowed"; he left Hampton, returning to England and the favor of Cromwell, "because his church disapproved of his marriage late in life to a woman whom they regarded as disreputable." SEABROOK (VILLAGE OF ANCIENT HAMPTON) Let Us follow the pioneers through Seabrook, where the Bound-House was built in 1636 by...
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