Year: 1878

duly heralded by the crier here. In the
Summer season think he Is busy about all
/ tho time, 1t is my impression that he has
been to the part of the village where am
stopping, as many as four times to-day. cry
ing the news and advertising.


have now suggested two kinds Of bust
ness that arc not adapted to this locality. and
| would like to mention one that as adapted
to 1t. 1t is suitable for a watering place
and reasonable success in that direction
You have here the benefit of sea voyage
without its inconvenience.


The chance for boating cannot be excelled,
and the fishing is glorious. This year the
blue fish are so abundant that we hardly
care to catch them. Generally We 90 out
to sea after them. and draw a very long line
behind swift sailing yacht to take them I;
Dut this year sec them up right around
the dock sometimes. They are iearfuly
voraciOus fellows, rather larger than mack
erel and as spry and gamY a. trout.
Standing on the dock this morning saw
swarm OF minnOws ploughed through and
through by a school of these blue fish in a
way that was q caution to anv small boy
who thinks lie would like to be fish for
the fun of it. The minnows jumped from
the water in crowds, churniug up the sur
face like falling rain, while the cleaning
white and green sides of their deyOurcrs
flashed among them like sword blades The
gulls came thick above, and hoyerel in
screaming delight over the place, snatch
ing q small fish now and then from the
jumping crowd. 1t was quick work in
less than five minutes all vas over. The
last saw Of it was 4 poor minnow with
out tail. lie tloated head downward two
thirds of him) in his last expiring agony,
up to the dock.


Here am interrupted to look at sud
den sluall coming upon the quiet summer
sea. The boats come hurrying into the har-
b1r. One is too far ont, and We see her
far of drop her sail to avoid the danger of a
capsizc. She has quite party on board
some from our hotel She is rocking with
bare poles on the billOws, and all of Us are
watching her, and watching the clouds and
the sudden squall.


Later.-All right, the boat has made sail
again, and is coming for the harbor. Care
and anxiety about the boats is not super flu-
Ous. | remember that two years ago when
We we-e here, Mr. Samson was drowned by
a capsze.


This afternoon one of the boats brought in
an unusually large sand shark. or sea-law
yer. lie is about ten feet long, and has an
ugly look about him. Many of these fish
are caught here. Shaking, in the rough
water. of the southeast shore, Is popular
amusement.


There are many other things about the
Island that | would like to mention. There
is the O!d windmill for grinding corn, with
the date, l146, cut in the stone door step,
and the old house built with knees like
ship to brace it against the wind. And
there is the cattle -herding. by man and
boy who have two cents a dag for the care
of each animal. They take them in the
morning and bring them back to the village
az evening. The village herd is driven in
this way over the plains to pick the seanty
grasses which constitute their pas,urage. |
would like to say something of Siosconset
and Polls and the Haulover. 1t would be
pleasant also to hin: at a Nantucket rO-
nance.


But | must stop here. My comrade comes
in to say that he has arranged to 90 SHARK
ing tomorrow. GRADUATE.