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rapin as we keep a pen of pigs, and fatten them 

 on crabs. Crabs and clams are so plentiful 

 that they are considered a very plebeian diet. 

 We keep a naphtha launch, two small sail- 

 boats, three rowboats and a schooner yacht. 



I had always desired a home that had some 

 association with history and yet one on which 

 I might stamp the imprint of my own mind. 

 Elmington Manor fulfilled both these desires. 

 The house, when we bought the estate, was 

 simply a square brick structure finished with 

 Portland cement and painted brown. It 

 is beautifully situated on a peninsula lawn 

 of fifteen acres. From the land side the 

 avenue drive stretches away from the gate 

 through giant trees two miles to the hills and 

 the country road. On the water side it looks 

 majestically out to sea over a sunny stretch 

 of greensward dotted with holly and flower- 

 ing shrubs. 



Its roots are deep set in Colonial history. 

 Its broad acres were a Crown grant two hun- 



