IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



Warren's and in boarding-houses of the 

 simplest; or they took over the cottages of 

 the residents — these retiring to mysterious' 

 quarters not designed as habitations.! 

 Thirty or forty dollars a season, wood and 

 water included, was the rent for a cottage 

 that satisfied unexacting people who were 

 in a spirit to rough it; — were ready to take; 

 what was offered them, and accept unfam-i 

 iliar discomforts in good humour. Nar- ' 

 row indeed the space then sufficing for the : 

 larger families, the greater number of 

 guests. i 



By 1866 the 'little summer colony' hadi' 

 acquired some character of permanency;; 

 the Protestant church, built in that yearii 

 with seats for perhaps 250 people, fairly' 

 measured it. A memoir of this church has 

 been written to which I make bold to add a 

 foot-note. Resting upon twin Anglican and 

 Presbyterian pillars, the portals stand open 

 to beliefs widely sundered in theory. Those 

 who enter come not upon invitation, as 

 tolerated in charity, but each in his own 

 right to his own place— acknowledging no 

 more, perhaps, than the brief essential 

 credo: — *I believe.' It is surely no senti- 

 mental fancy that half a century of uncon- 

 strained reunion has filled the little temple 

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