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er permitted to be cursed with a " bar-room," so 

 called, is now without a public house. We there- 

 fore refrain from saying anything in its commen- 

 dation, as a starting point of the angler ; except that 

 we are among the favored few who are still per- 

 mitted by our obliging friend, Ezra Crocker, Esq. 

 though having taken down his sign, to make his 

 house our home.* 



We mention this place as by far the most con- 

 venient location, either for early or late fishing, to 

 say nothing of its various other charms as a sum- 

 mer resort ; yet all the places, to which we have 

 alluded, may be visited with great convenience 

 fi'om Sandwich, requiring only a little more time 

 in going from place to place. For whether you 

 reside at one or the other, your excursions will de- 

 pend upon the season of the year. If early in the 

 spring before the sea-trout have begim to run, 

 they will be to the narrows of Popponesset bay, to 



* As a proof of the salubrity of the village of Cotuit, as well 

 as the primitive temperance of its occupants, it may be re- 

 marked, that for the space of 20 years, a physician has not 

 been called to the family of Mr Crocker, with one exception, 

 and that was to a child, now a blooming young lady, who was 

 on a visit to the family. The physician being from home 

 however, and the patient mending, his services even in this 

 solitary instance were finally dispensed with. The father and 

 mother of Mr Cro:ker died at the advanced age of 80. Their 

 sons and descendants, together with Mr Hawley and the 

 Rev. Mr Fisk, are the principal occupants of the village. 



