IV. 
Hush! the wind roars hoarse and deep, 
On they come, on they come! 
Hush! the waves are rolling in, 
White with foam, white with foam! 
DROPPED my work with you and came 
away so unexpectedly, so unceremoniously, 
that it gave me no time for explanations. Not 
overstrong or energetic, I found that the work I 
was doing with you, and trying to encourage 
others to do along similar lines, was gradually 
taking more of me than could be healthfully 
spared. As a result after careful consideration 
and a hasty preparation I find myself not 
stranded, but very pleasantly situated at Whitney 
Park, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. 
Historic Locality. 
Monmouth Beach is midway between Long 
Branch and Seabright, on the very narrow pe- 
ninsula terminating at Sandy Hook. It is a 
small, irregular plot of ground, having a mile 
frontage along the ocean, and is about a mile 
across from the ocean to the Shrewsbury river, 
which, at Galilee, the first station north, makes a 
detour, nearly surrounding it on three sides, 
almost touching the ocean again near Long 
Branch. This was the first settlement along the 
Jersey coast. 
Shrewsbury, just across the river, west from 
Monmouth Beach, was one of the first established 
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