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placed it with a Boothbay pen-holder, a bright red one 

 for five cents, which is now trying to tell you of our 

 journeyings as was the wont of the Hinghamite. 



It just poured that night at Boothbay, and there were 

 no signs of cessation in the morning. We decided to stay 

 until after dinner, and not divide our drive that day. 

 Suddenly it cleared, and we went out on the street to 

 make some inquiries at the boat office about Bar Harbor, 

 for we were getting interested in the coast, and felt 

 inclined to go on indefinitely. A small boy came along 

 with a poor horse and shabby carriage, calling, ''Have a 

 ride? See round the Harbor for ten cents!" We had 

 time, and nothing else to do, so jumped in and "did" the 

 Harbor. 



The afternoon drive to Damariscotta was very pleasant, 

 and we found the old brick hotel full of hospitable com- 

 fort, for all it had such a forbidding exterior. We might 

 have been tempted to stop a bit in Damariscotta if we 

 had known what we learned a few days later, about some 

 recent excavations of interest, but we were within twen- 

 ty-five miles of Penobscot Bay, and impatient for our 

 first glimpse of it. 



We camped that day by a country school-house. Two 

 little fellows were much amused when we stopped there, 

 thinking we had come to see the teacher in vacation time. 

 They were greatly interested in Jerry during the unhar- 

 nessing and tying to a tiny bush. We were interested in 

 the wild strawberries they had picked in the tall grass 

 over the wall, and one of the little fellows finally con- 

 cluded he rather have the money ofifered him than the 

 berries, although he had nothing else for his dinner. His 



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