Year: 1864

of it. The Grecian colnmn will, indeed.
follow the traveller all the way down the
Cape, though Greece may seem further
off than ever; nor can all the window
blinds on the houses make the place ap-
pear in the least degree like Venice
Here we will see Doric entablature
pierced by five small windows, and there
a court house in the form of an antique
temple, but with its roof bristling with a
dozen stacks of tall Yankee chimneys.-
Yet this show of Grecian architecture,
if it does not always indicate good taste,
is certain sign of thrift. The man who
builds his house with a front like an
Athenian temple is sure to be fnan-
cially successful one, and, generally,
man who has earned his own money; for
they who inherit fortunes, being often
travelled men, or cultivated by some con-
siderable amount of reading, know that
the public edifces of the Greeks do not
suit the--purpose of our modern house
keeping. Thus, every successful captain
of a ship who comes home to build a
house in the sand must have Grecian
pillars. He has got the money, and he
will have cottage front like Parthenon.
Nothing can stop him.


But the thrift of Cape Cod is not of
that kind which follows fawning. Here
dwells evidently an independent race OF
men, and all living at arms length OF
each other. Even in the towns the
houses do not touch, but stand apart
Every one has its separate enclosure,
with plot of greensward, orchard, and
garden patch. House and grounds form
distinct andindependent establishment
leaning on no other for its support; and
though unfortunately, there are no
plank roads in those sands, yet every
front door il approached from the street
by a plank pathway. Nor do these peo-
pie generally occupy the whole OF their
houses. They have vacant apartments
though none to let. The front roems are
all furnished and shut up, The family
live in the kitchen. And they can at-
ford to do so, for the back part of the
house is large enough to accommodate all
the members, while the other half Is
kept as neat as wax for tea-drInkings,
and the use of company. Hence, the
stranger who goes stumbling through the
unlighted streets at night may fancy
himself in Turkish town or an aoul OF
the Caucassians. He can no more descry
the light of a candle than if he were in
the centre of Ethiopia. Accordingly, to
stir much abroad after nightfall in these,
filed with painted wooden posts, is to set
man-traps for ones self, and present the
sorest temptations to Providence. For,
inevitably, at this corner you bark your
shins. at that you break your neck. A
Chinese lantern here would not be an un-
meaning joke. Still, every native, doubt
less, knows the way 40 his habitation in
the darkest night, as well as bee to its
cell in tie hive.


And no Spaniard goes to bed earlier
He does his work by daylight, and econ
omizes candles. All his habits are SIM
pie and natural. He dimes on the
stroke of noon. He takes his tea-rather
weak-at the hour when the merchant
in the city sits down to dinner and he
gets up in the morning just as the town
snob is going to bed. His fare, too, is
simple; at breakfast, ish-fsh fried,
broiled, boiled, baked and choweredl-
though, probably, there is not one house
wife IN ten who has not pie, or loaf OF
cake, slowed away somewhere. And you
shall nowhere eat such delectable apple
slump nowhere such doughnuts, scarce
ly even in Connecticut; nowhere such
baked CLANS, of Rhode Island and Prov
idenoe Plantations. There is, also, love
of junketing and tea drinking, when
neighbors come together in winter even
ings, and when lasses assemble of an ar
ternoon at quilting" making the bri-
dial bedspread with innumberable stitch.
es, and squares of white calico, upon
which is written, in indelible ink, the
name of the fair seamstress who present
ed it. On these occasions the number OF
hot biscuits and sweetcakss served up is
almost incredible; and the next morning
after one, 1 have seen with my own eyes
a small Cape boy make heavy break
fast of pound cake with plums in it.


After all, life on the Cape is more like
a holiday than one might suppose who
had never been there; for the men be-
ing mostly seafaring, they do their work
in all parts of the world rather than st
home, The Cape Colder is omnipres-
ent. He casts his line wherever there
are Goldfish. If there is a school of bass
or mackeral on any coast, he is after
them with his seine. He chases whales
from the southern frozen zone to the
northern; and will, some nay, throw his
harpoons in the open air at the pole. In
all the steamers, liners, packets, he is
captain and first mate. On the high
seas or the coast, there il no better man
to handle q ship. You find him in all
the crack clippers; and if a fore-and-aft
schooner run her nose into any strange
place, ten to one there is at her helm &
Cape Colder. He has also been in his
day fighting man. Some of our proud
est frigates have been sailed by him.
He was on the lakes in the last war with
England, and threw up his cap there;
and as for privateering it is that one
among all the trades Of which heis Jack,
that he likes best to turn his hand to-
Though not much Of a nst at marching
on land, the Cape Colder, nevertheless,
was at Bunker Hill and Saratoga, beside
having fought the French and Indians