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Title: Here and there in New England and Canada
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sweetser, Moses Foster, 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Passenger Dept., Boston (and) Maine Railroad
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to the scene, at double-quick, and the enemy sullenlyretired. The advancing sea speedily cleared the battle-field of its dead.Near this point, at Saco Ferry, the first hotel in Elaine was opened,in 1654, when Henry Waddock was licensed to keep an ordinary toentertain strangers for their money. It was a thatched log-house,mth beds of dried grass, hewn-timber floors, each end occupied by agreat stone chimney, and furniture of simple domestic manufacture,except a few pieces brought from Eugland. • Waddocks Ordinary was successfulh run for 104 years, until the building of the bridge atBiddeford turned all travel from this route, and left the old tavernstranded. Humphrej- Scamraon, its landlord in 1688, Avas mowing hismeadow one day, and his little son, bearing to him the family mug ofbeer, saw a war-party of Indians approaching. The lad carried backthe mug, and put it on the dresser, and informed his mother of the un-welcome guests, who forthwith seized the whole family and carried 115
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116 them off to Fryeburg and Canada. A year later they were permitted toreturn, at the dawn of peace, and found the old tavern cat mewing atthe door, and the beer-mug still standing on the side-board. (Thisrelic, with its etched portrait of William of Orange, is still preservedin Saco, by a descendant of the family.) In later years, the beach became the scene of the Fontinalia, ormystic bathing-days, of the surrounding countiw, when thousands ofyeomen came hither and dipped in the sea, believing that on the 2Gtlidaj of June miraculous healing-powers were given to the waters. Formanj years, by a singular appropriateness, this Festival of Waters Avasappointed for the 2ith of June, the day sacred to St. John the Baptist,but when the time for convening the General Court of the Province ofMaine, at Saco, was fixed at June 25th, the daj^ following was chosenas the one sacred to bathing in the sea; and to the present time thesummer-season at Old Orchard fairly begins on this auspicious date.

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