Cannon Field 
fiable, if the statement were correct, that his 
father owned the Baptist Church of Boston. 
Cannon Field is to the right upon coming 
up from the wharf. It is at the top of a bluff 
whose base is washed by the sea at high tide. 
It is but an open grassy field, containing a 
group of large willows, a few gnarled old apple 
and cherry trees, half-a-dozen defunct cannon 
with their noses in the ground, and two living 
ones with their noses suspiciously sniffing the 
air of the quiet Basin. 
But there is a charm about it that makes one 
go again and again, go and lie on the grass in 
the warmth of the sun or the shade of the wil- 
lows, and look off over the beautiful Annapolis 
Basin with its one narrow, high-walled entrance 
at Digby Gut. 
Perhaps, as you lie thus, the scattered fisher- 
men's houses on the other shore fade from 
sight and the vessels in the Basin melt away, 
leaving rock and water and dark evergreen 
forest in possession. Then, perhaps, two small 
ships, which are not fishing schooners nor any 
craft that sail these waters to-day, come sailing 
through the Digby Gut. The men on their 
decks are wary and eager. Where Digby lies 
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