Seaside Scenes And Thoughts Some Extracts From a Diary
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Not an edible is raised on this island; every square foot of it is held for building purposes, and is coined into financial assets for those who own the land. Every householder here looks to the long causeway over the marsh to bring daily supplies for his table. The " skeeter "-bitten farmer on the Jersey sand- plains bends his back and mops his brow to raise vegetables, eggs, and poultry for the near-by city and town folk. So Ottilie and I brought home heaps of things to eat which we bought of... farmers' wives and daughters, the men-folk being in the fields. Of course there are many provision stores in Ocean City, but aside from meats and fish they get their supplies mainly from the same source 80 SEASIDE SCENES AND THOUGHTS where we got ours to-day. In going out, Ottilie called my attention to a place where only a small dam separates a fresh-water pond from a salt-water inlet. I dropped the remark that this struck me as a dam queer arrangement. As she loves me, she forgives me! — As I sat alone on the piazza last evening enjoying my vesper cigar, two birds came flying directly toward me, and one of them, the smaller, dropped down on the arm of my chair, while the other, evidently the mother of this little one, flew through our piazza to that of the neighboring house, where it alighted to wait further develop- ments.
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