Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-04-24
For the Ellsworth American
Provinoetown, as Aunt Debby saw il

} For the Ellsworth American
Provlnoetown, as Aunt Debby saw IT,
Then you never vent to Proyincetovn
oAAes ali'c you'd ortcr 60" and Aun
bchhy peered at me piiyingy as she wipe,
ana re-ad1usted her spectacles. Il ncye
went but once" said she re-assurlnrlv
but rs worth setin'. and that.s % m
the next time 90 I'm goln' in the cars
BEN brought up in the northern par, o
NAME ! never went on the steamboat he
i"rc that can remember. so TWAS new
ous ness TO me Twas a real pleasant da,
ana most everybody prophesied we'd have
CAIN night ont, | amt no Judge Of the
weather, and what's more don't think
ihnch OF them that are. They're mos, Al
/ lus wrong.
1 well, We got along very well for a few
| houfs ard then that old boat commenced
!" tumble about | went to bed IL Won
can II bed, but there want no feathers
nor straw nor nothing TO make 1t soft and
'h'T" want but one blanket. and tnst wns
100 short First Of IL / thought shonld
iferze' and before morning | thought I
should r"sst. Before went To bed took
care to put my pocket book between the
wal anu mattress. Then tied the two
door knobs together. for there was two
n"orN IN my room and didn't see as one
uad any way TO fasten Il, unless tied II
nu' gracious me! didn't git wink of
sieep' he'd 10 hang on 10 that bed all
hlsht To Keep from gittin ni,c,.4., ~.
bilge-w water a. there was in my room
knew twas that hocuuee Ia heerd folks
tell about H. First that old boat pitcheI
endways and then she'd pitch sideways, III
nv old bones achtd a If Ia he'd the rheu-
matiz a week, and was clean beat out be-
fore mornin' and nearly suffocated trled
70 git the skylight open, but Il "ouldh
bulge an inch. By and by when could
see twas Citing light got up and dressed
and went out To take a look at the waves
But | didn't stay long for everything was
wet, and he'd to hang on for dear HE TO
50 weak and trembly, and that old boat
kept pitchin just when you wasn't expect
in It and you'd 20 whack up against some
I thin.
! went back to my room for dldn see
much of anybody moyin' except two OF
three suspicious lookin' men. When so'
there he'd to lay right down. wan
sick. but nv stomach felt so queer
couldn't set up. Well, we got TO Boston
all right. but Ne boat was 50 late that
missed my yran and he'd to wait IN the de
pot five hours | should think the mar
that hollers off those names in that depo
would have sore throat, every night, 10
there are so many of them. felt afeere'
ia lose my train, but didn't, and got t'
proyincetown about half past nine tina
night.
didn't say much to my cousins, Tor
was 50 beat out he'd TO 90 right to oed
Next day | saw sand. My stars, Melissa
YOU think you've seen lots OF sights, ana
guess YOU hev, but you never saw such
sandy place in your whole life why the
hey TO board up their wells inside Ike
I box to keep the sand from rolling II
l. But they don't very often dig any wei
They drive a tube down inter the grour
anywhere, and git water, Cousin lsa'
said. They have lots of them pumps
their grave-yards to water their fiowe
- with.
Speaking of the water puts me IN NIL
that | went out on the beach, (thats WI
they call il. but should think the who
town was a beach, and they told me to q
2 down in the sand few inches and Ia Il
~ water fit to drink. l did so and 81
IS, enough, there was water kinder yeliar'
IRE decent enough to drink. 1t made me
lor tie fgetty, though, thnkin' Of standin
water, as YOU might say. But that oes
is a queer place, just as | judge des
2 looks. You can't see the town, nor IRE
. nor po,hin' but hills and valleys OF WI
sand and the ocean. They say that
wind keeps shiftin' the sand about, SO t
they have to plant beach grass TO kee
from comm on their cranberry bogs.
n There's queer pitchy plant grows
\ there that they gather and use to XII
~ fires inst as we use birch-bark. Coz
Isaac told me that man got lost out
that beach one winter and froze to de
,Tis a dreadful lonesome place. Their
4 few trees that grows in Provinceto
things
nAh ? "a ever saw. Why, 'twould take about a
3 on dred of them to make decent sized NJ
At nine. They hev gardens, but for the
N, az me don't see how the stun gr
They put barbed wire fence round
and lock them up, but them little r.
pese children squeeze through some
= and help themselves to cucumbers ana
- like.
That sand is awful hard stun TO wal
They told me to walk on my toes
didn't see as it made much difference.
kE a cur'us place an no mistake. don
ILL., whore all that sand come from, nor
hy made it all gather in that one
90 While l was there they went out al
A. whale, but guess they didn't git MI
q saw some big bones in q yard one
'"I when I was walkin' down street. Z
5 of s,.,. ~nsn sa;d that twas a whales
lrlcs Twas awful big. Well, Melissa, IN
aigs to strain the milk now, because U
las come in, but if was you. Ia go "
rug incetown next summer. It's worm
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