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country, came to hand there. We talked over their 

 newsy contents as we drove miles on Old Orchard 

 Beach that afternoon. We spent the night at Bay View, 

 and part of the next day, for the thunder showers fol- 

 lowed one after another so closely, we could not get an 

 order to the stable, and time for a dry start in between. 

 We finally ordered Charlie harnessed after one shower, 

 and brought to the door after the next. This plan 

 worked too well, for after all our hasty packing off, sides 

 on, boot up, all ready for a deluge, it never rained a drop. 

 We called at the Saco post office again, and then took a 

 road we thought would take us by the house of a friend 

 in Kennebunkport, but it proved to be a lonely road with 

 neither friends nor foes, and before we knew it Kenne- 

 bunkport was left one side, and we were well on our way 

 to Kennebunk. Despite our muddy and generally de- 

 moralized condition, we called on friends there before 

 going to the hotel for the night. We drove thirty-seven 

 miles the next day, through Wells, York and Ports- 

 mouth, to Hampton. Ten miles the next morning took 

 us to Newburyport, where we stopped over Sunday for a 

 visit. 



All was well at home, so we thought we would still 

 follow the ocean, as this was a sort of water trip. (We 

 had followed the Merrimac, Pemigewasset, Connecticut, 

 Mohawk, Androscoggin and Saco rivers.) The old 

 towns, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich and Essex, are 

 always interesting, and Cape x\nn is so delightful we 

 could not resist the temptation to "round" it again, and 

 have another look at Pigeon Cove, one of the loveliest 

 places we have ever seen. 



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