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in at the rear and coming out at the front. We 

 stop just long enough to make an unsuccessful hunt 

 for the hole, and then on to the Collins place. 

 What is there especially interesting about this fairly 

 modern house ? Just this : that it was our home 

 through many summer days, and we can never 

 think of it or of its hospitable mistress without a 

 thrill of delight. Out there in the front yard 

 gleam the white grave-stones which mark the rest- 

 ing places of members of the family who died a 

 hundred and fifty years ago. From the wide 

 porch at the back of the house you look out over 

 the bay to Chappaquiddick, and may even catch 

 glimpses of the sea, looking either to the north or 

 to the south. 



We've rested long enough, and will resume our 

 journey up the street to the Fisher house. Some 

 day we will make a long stop here, for it is a pre- 

 Revolutionary mansion and full of relics of the 

 olden days. Here are quaint old deeds, some of 

 them in the Indian language, and no end of curios 

 gathered by members of the family during a pro- 

 longed stay in Spain. 



If you've leisure, let's visit the piers. Time was 

 when all was bustle here, but it is depressingly 

 quiet now. Forty vessels in a single year sailed 

 from this port in search of whales. An old record 

 bearing date of November n, 1652, tells us that 

 " Thos. Daggett and Wm. Weeks are appointed 

 whale cutters for this year; voted the day above 



