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Title: Vesty of the Basins

Author: Sarah P. McLean Greene

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21443]

Language: English

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VESTY OF THE BASINS

_A Novel_

BY

SARAH P. McLEAN GREENE

AUTHOR OF CAPE COD FOLKS, ETC.

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers

Copyright, 1892, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

CONTENTS

I. THE MEETIN'
II. "SETTIN' ON THE LOG"
III. "GETTIN' A NAIL PUT IN THE HOSS'S SHU"
IV. LOVE, LOVE
V. COLUMBUS AND THE EGG, AND LOT'S WIFE
VI. THIS GREATER LOVE
VII. "SETTIN' ON THE FENCE"--THE SHIFTY SPECTRE
VIII. "VESTY'S MARRIED"
IX. THE TALE OF CAPTAIN LEEZUR'S SLY COURTSHIP
X. A CALL FROM NOTELY'S YACHT
XI. ANOTHER NAIL
XII. THE MASTER REVELLER
XIII. CAPTAIN LEEZUR RELATES HOW MIS' GARRISON ATE CROW
XIV. "TAR-A-TA!" OF THE TRUMPET
XV. THE BROTHERS
XVI. THE POPLAR LEAVES TREMBLE
XVII. GOIN' TO THE DAGARRIER'S
XVIII. UNCLE BENNY SAILS AWAY TO GALILEE
XIX. THE BASIN
XX. SOCIAL DIVERSIONS AT THE "POST-OFFICE"
XXI. BROKEN WINDOWS
XXII. "NEIGHBORIN'"
XXIII. THE "FLAG-RAISIN'," OR THE "OCCASION"
XXIV. THE STORY OF THE SACRED COW
XXV. IN THE LANE
XXVI. JUST THE SCHOOL-HOUSE

VESTY OF THE BASINS

I

THE MEETIN'

Now is it to be rain or a storm of wind at the Basin?

I love that foam out on the sea; those boulders, black and wet along
the shore, they are a rest to me; the clouds chase one another; in this
dim north country the wind is cool and strong, though it is now
midsummer; at sunset you shall see such color!

From a little, low, storm-beaten building comes the sound of a
fog-horn. That is the gift of Melchias Tibbitts, deceased, to the
Basin school-house. Yonder is his schooner, the "Martha B. Fuller,"
long stranded, leaning seaward, down there in the co