The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-09-17
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''Ob, the CID place amt what it used TO Be.
dreannily buns Pgineval fisherman through
his rose, as be views throng Of Broadway
dressed visitors loangins upon the piazza Of
50 called Queen Anne" cottage. Ard the a.
lire relic Of by guns generations is right. Cas-
tine has undergone wondroas changes during
the pas. few years. Il used 10 Be a fishing
Town, bat now the lanilady deals Get only sails
nackerel from the New York market, and drs-
sicatei cod. Il used to 10 a great place fOr
shippiugs bGs in these days the Portland
steamer, enc tug and various baTuAcle bebur-
iened seOws are the nest conspicnOas part Of
the marine Il used 10 BE all the year round
thriving, prosperous, hut emincnily decorous
town; but now in summer il is the tramping
sroaRd Of the riOsoaS summer bcarder. and in
winter IL is Gully tribe less deSolate than Lady
Franklin Bay. One thing however, remains
unchanged; the fess. And CaS,ine fcg is a
tcs indeed. Il comes to stay. sometimes for
weeks, shutting oui the rays Of the sun, moon
and stars as effectively as mighty lid Of white
China II is perrasive toss very much 50. Il
makes The boy and sea a dim gray gulf. above,
below. Is makes the streets dim Al MONDAY,
aud the big elns loom through it like giant
Specters. Il makes its way indoors, and your
friend across the rom locks shadowy. II dims
the lusser Of glossy collars and cuffs and makes
wild havoc with crimps and frirzes. But il
has It's good traits too, for it gives the ladies
Of Castine 4 softness and purity Of complexion
rivalliug that seen in the Channel Isles Of
England, and to the lawns and trees it gives a
depth Of lustrous green that can scarcely be
imagined IN places where the grass and leaves
are scorched and blislerei half the time.
But then Casiine isn't perpetually ina fog
There are many sunny clouiless DAYS. And
then there is view Of Penobscos Bay and
It's multtudinous islands that is indescribably
beautiful. The town too, is tne sight, with
its houses more than a century old, aud its
streets over-arrhed with elms that were lusty
trees ''in the good old colony times when We
were under the King"
There are some well-preserved old customs
prevalent in Castiue, and at least one Of them
has caught even the ieonoelastic summer
boaTder IN its snares. This is the hay rack
party, OF which the straw ride Of New York
and New Jersey IS but 4 feeble ard unavailiDg
imitation. The needful ingredients OF the hay
rack party are wagon Of the Oldest most lun-
berins type, suTmounied by a rack or riggin.
shat looks like an international convention Of
exasserated picket fences, a yoke Of oxen, the
/ slower the better; a farmers boy 10 drive them
with 4 nail-lipped quad, LOT Of hay, and any
quantity Of young people Of assorted sexes.
Put the hay IN the rack until il is half FULL and
the young people atop, yoke the oxen 10 the
wagon, bid the boy WELD his quad, and of
soes the party Tue rustic eqaippage with
/ Its hilarious occupants moves on as slow and
stately as as the Lord Mayors gilded coach.
through the elm-embowered streets, along the
winding couniry road with its stone fences and
apple trees by the wAyside. the air fragrant
with the breath of new mOwn hay. Far out in
the country, when the evening stare are twink
| ling, an old stone farmhouse that has endured
many an Indian siege, IS reached. Ii stands
in garden Of hollyhOeks and peoples and is
half covered with honeysuckles and roses. In
troop the hay-rack riders into the big kitchen,
with the beams Of the ioor above so low that
| the heads OF the tallest invOluniarily droop.
| Here, BY the light of score Of candles, chick
ems, and cider that IS equal TO champagne, are
discussed. Then table and chairs are run to
the wall, three rustic hidlers mount the table,
and the Virginia reel wakes fast and furious.
So goes The evening, until midnight finds rack
and oxen in waiting for 4 noisy return to the
town that has been sleeping the sleep Of the
| just for the past three hours. And the good
man Of the house awakes one ear to hear the
chorus Of "A rig- and-a-jig and away we 20, y
and opens the corner of his mouth to say:
"Pnscilly. tell ye l Won't have them air
noisy city folks here no more naow, burned il
1 will. Jest hear the rumpus they're raisin
at this time O. night"
And the good wife replies:
1 "'Zekel, yell have 'em here If they dom
come home till daylight, longs they pay ter
dollars week each for the little attic bedroom
and some garden-sass."
And Priscilla's counsel always prevails.