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away, and golf clubs and tennis racquets were dusted off and placed ^ready for use in the hall closet. The cool Maine summer was already well under way; the summer cottages crossed out: were had been opened and cleaned, the boats crossed out: had been scraped, repainted and put in the water; lilacs bloomed in the dooryards and shadblow by the roadside. From the reef below the light-house the bell-buoy rolled and wallowed in the rushing tides, clanging its warnings to the occasional freighter ^making heading for Bangor crossed out: or Belfast or the yacht cruising the Bay, and striking the crossed out: sentiment nostalgic hearts of the Castine summer colony with memories of past ^ younger summers.

In those days the summer colony was small and crossed out: fixed ^long established. Most people owned their houses and since many were ministers or university professors ^of limited means who had work to do in the holidays, social customs ^had remained simple. It crossed out: used to be was said ^that old Mrs. Ames used to have Robert hitch up Brownie to the cart crossed out: spread the umbrella which, in her black dress