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troversy among both salt and fresh water sailors as to the points 

 of compass. 



Capt. Kidd's Anchor. 



Under the veranda in a water cave is hidden a boat, just as the 

 pirates used to hide their big whale boats in some one of the rocky 

 clefts that edged the shore, and over the hills is one of the late 

 Captain Kidd's shore lairs. One of our neighbors fished up on the 

 end of a grappling iron what the village wiseacre swore was Kidd's 

 anchor, slipped by him to escape capture. We in turn captured 

 the anchor and set it up at one end of the rock esplanade. 



Entering the bungalow through a side-settled outer porch one 

 inventories at a glance its most striking features. The big oak iron- 

 strapped and grilled door, on whose stained sea-green glass wicket 

 window is inscribed the name "Sea Boulders," opens to a short and 

 narrow red-tiled hall, a stop draught as well as screen for the big 

 living room, which is twenty by forty-seven feet, its size increased 

 by an outdoor porch dining room, connecting with it by four large 

 doors aggregating fifteen feet in width, hinged in two sections so that 

 on occasion they can be swung entirely open, forming one large room, 

 but such an arrangement is a rare finger pincher unless carefully 

 handled. The centre of this room is thus made thirty-five feet in 

 width against its full length of forty-seven feet. Ventilation is aided 

 by electric fans set against outlets which, protected by baffle boards, 

 are cut in each gable end close to the peak. 



The Stolen Closet. 



The dilemma of how to closet a bedroom without decreasing its 

 area or injuring the symmetry of an adjoining room was solved by a 

 full sized portiered doorway leading from a bedroom into a false 

 front six foot high cabinet firmly fastened against the separating wall 

 of the larger room. The interior of the closet thus filched from it 

 is lathed and plastered. 



The inglenook end of the living room is fifteen by twenty feet, 

 and has red quarry tile floor and a wide stone fireplace, at each side 

 of which are big settles, placed under windows of copper-set stained 

 glass, which stands wear much better in a swinging casement than 

 if set in lead. The trammels hanging from the crane in the large 

 fireplace have seen service for one hundred and fifty years, while 

 the grandfather's clock in the near by inglenook has ticked in and 

 out the lives of four generations. In the fireplace arch are three 

 pendant iron rings for handling heavy logs. Ship-kneed brackets 

 support the carrying beam fronting the inglenook and there are wide 

 settles in the leaded bay window on the east. 



In the centre of the living room is a flower-bordered electric 

 fountain. 



