CAPE COD FOLKSCAPE 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.
CHAPTER I.
ON A MISSION.
"Lo, on a narrer neck o' land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand!"
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand!"
Aunt Sibylla was not sporting, now, in the airy realms of metaphor. AuntSibylla stood upon Cape Cod, and her voice rang out with that peculiarsweep and power which the presence of a dread reality alone can give.Something of the precariousness of her situation, too, was expressed inThe wild, alarming, though graceful, gesture of her arms.
It was before the long-projected canal separating Cape Cod from themainland had bee
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