House and Garden 
lilacs which protect it 
from the north and 
east were not planted 
yesterday. Below 
the garden, to the 
east, is the long ram¬ 
bling shed, for mis¬ 
cellaneous uses in the 
old days, now a stu- 
dio, and a boat¬ 
house ; and beyond 
this again the pier 
and floats stretching 
out to a deep pool 
which gives room for 
the boats at the low¬ 
est tide. Undoubt¬ 
edly the old landing 
was here, probably a 
timber crib, for some 
old logs still lie em¬ 
bedded there. The 
whole shore is full of 
A WING OF THE WENTWORTH HOUSE 
THE BOATHOUSE 
memories of these earlier days and one read¬ 
ily imagines the governor with his gay party 
of friends coming down the river in barges, 
and enjoying Little Harbor and the open 
ocean, perhaps venturing out to the shoals 
and tasting the hospitality of Laighton, who 
was even then keeping an inn and licensed 
to sell beer; or visiting the lonely rock 
where the tall lighthouse now 
stands, which a few years later 
was to be the scene of that 
grim tragedy—English seamen 
starving for weeks in bleak De¬ 
cember on the barren rock, kept 
alive eventually by that last re¬ 
sort, and rescued at the end 
only through the sacrifice of two 
of their number. 
On shore the gay crowd at 
the governor’s house probably 
recked little of the humble 
household at the cottage; but in 
later days the small house had 
its crumb of history, too, for 
falling into the hands of some 
refugees, it sheltered once Louis 
Philippe during his wanderings 
in this country. 
A collection should be made 
of drawings and photographs of the small 
farmhouses which dot our New England 
coasts. The native owners neither appreciate 
nor value them ; the modern flimsy cottage 
is in their eyes more to be desired. The 
summer boarder is looking for bath rooms 
with hot and cold water, and soon these 
charming buildings will be but a memory. 
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