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Title: Folks next door; the log book of a rambler
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915 Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University). Poetry, 1876-1900. RPB
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel Cuba -- Description and travel Panama -- Description and travel New England -- Description and travel
Publisher: Washington, D. C., The Eastside publishing company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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vesselsecMis sailiuL; up the sky. A melody lloats fiom the (■al)in ;two of the ladies are already at the piano siiiLiinu one ofthe familiar Imt ever-deli,L;hl ful airs fiom The BeggarsOpera. So, in one n\ the most l)ear,tiful of niidsunimernights, Avo go out into the silence of the Sound, where,after an hour or two, we make a (piiet cove near (inenwieli,droj) anehor, haul a lantern up the mast, and tuiii in.^ou never go to bed at sea; you tuiii in. ^ou do not getnj): vou turn out. And you soon come to say, with more orless grace, fore and aft, how and sttrn, starhoard and)>ort. Perhaps, in time, we shall come to banish all ideasde)Hmding on the clock market, and boldly ask how manybells it is. To-night we sleep the slec)) of the innocent andthe immaculate. Xo dust; no Iluntirs Point smells; noheat : no mos(;uitoes ; no Hies; no sound but the rumlde ofthe distant locomotive, tlu btdls marking time each halfhour, and the soothing swish-swash of ripples breakingairainst the guards.
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