The Old Colony Town And Other Sketches

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Not far away were the ever- green woods, and browsing cattle, and fields of grass. There was a piano in her new home ; but in front of it was the wearisome sea, upon which she must look every day, for which she must light the lamps every night ; LIFE ON MATINICUS ROCK 75 and by her door stood the dreadful steam whistle, screeching its dismal blasts when fogs covered the coast. Here they lived fif- teen years, keeping in charge the White- Head Light. But all the time some hopes of another home r...emote from the ocean were kept alive in her heart. One day she wrote a letter to a friend living near the Green Mountains of Vermont, in which she re- viewed her work of keeping ocean lights burning, to which thirty-seven years of her life had been devoted, and said : — " Sometimes I think the time is not far distant when I shall climb these lighthouse stairs no more ; then there will be another watcher who will take my place ; but there never will be anybody who can take a greater interest in the light than I have taken.

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