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Title: Cape Cod Folks

Author: Sarah P. McLean Greene

Release Date: November 4, 2006 [EBook #19708]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CAPE COD FOLKS.]

CAPE COD
FOLKS

BY

SARAH P. MCLEAN GREENE
(SALLY PRATT McLEAN)

_With Illustrations from the Play_

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyrighted, 1881,
By A. WILLIAMS & Co.

Copyrighted, 1904,

BY DEWOLFE, FISKE & Co.

TO W.N.G.

CONTENTS.

I. ON A MISSION

II. I BLOW THE HORN

III. THE BEAUX OF WALLENCAMP PERFORM A GRAVE DUTY

IV. THE TURKEY MOGUL ARRIVES

V. GRANDMA KEELER GETS GRANDPA READY FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL

VI. BECKY AND THE CRADLEBOW

VII. LUTE CRADLEBOW KISSES THE TEACHER

VIII. FESTIVITIES AT THE ARK

IX. LOVELL BARLOW "POPS THE QUESTION."

X. A LETTER FROM THE FISHERMAN

XI. A WALLENCAMP FUNERAL

XII. BECKY'S CONFESSION

XIII. A MILD WINTER ON THE CAPE

XIV. RESCUED BY THE CRADLEBOW

XV. DAVID ROLLIN IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM

XVI. GEORGE OLVER'S LOVE FOR BECKY

XVII. TEACHER HAS THE FEVER.--DEATH OF LITTLE BESSIE

XVIII. LUTE CRADLEBOW GIVES THE TEACHER A NEW CHAIR

XIX. DEATH OF THE CRADLEBOW

XX. GEORGE OLVER'S ORATION

XXI. FAREWELL TO WALLENCAMP

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CHAPTER I.

ON A MISSION.

"Lo, on a narrer neck o' land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand!"

Aunt Sibylla was not sporting, now, in the airy realms of metaphor. Aunt
Sibylla stood upon Cape Cod, and her voice rang out with that peculiar
sweep and power which the presence of a dread reality alone can give.
Something of the precariousness of her situation, too, was expressed in
The wild, alarming, though graceful, gesture of her arms.

It was before the long-projected canal separating Cape Cod from the
mainland had been put under active process of preparation.

It was at an evening meeting in the Wallencamp school-house. A row of
dingy, sm