The outermost house

BOOKS BY HENRY BESTON
FIRELIGHT FAIRY BOOK FULL SPEED AHEAD STARLIGHT WONDER BOOK THE BOOK OF GALLANT VAGABONDS THE OUTERMOST HOUSE
A Winter Wreck at Pamet
THE OUTERMOST HOUSE
A YEAR OF LIFE ON THE GREAT BEACH OF CAPE COD
BY HENRY BESTON
Illustrated with Photographs by WILLIAM A. BRADFORD AND OTHERS
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. 1929
COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
TO MISS MABEL DAVISON AND MISS MARY CABOT WHEELWRIGHT
Only a solitary knows how social and kindly life can be. While living on the beach, I was helped by so many friends and Cape Cod neighbours that I should be writing a chapter were I to try to list them all. There are a few, however, to whom I owe more than neighbourly gratitude. To my friends Prince and Edna Nickerson Hurd of Eastham, to Mrs. Mercy A. Mines, and to Mr. John Nickerson I owe both my right to build on the dune-land and a world of kindest aid. For my chance to live this book and write it, I would here thank them first of all. I owe another real debt to Harvey Moore for building me so strong and snug a little house, another to George and Mary Smith for their hospitality, good counsel, and encouragement, another to Nate and Helen Clark. And I should like to thank Captain George Nickerson of Nauset Station, Bosun’s Mate Charles Ellis, the present No. 1, and the rest of the Nauset crew for the thousand kind and friendly things they did to help me.
The majority of my illustrations I owe to the courtesy of my Quincy friend and neighbour, the Hon. William A. Bradford. Mr. Bradford made several special trips to the Cape to get the pictures, and spared no time or effort in preparing them for the book. I would here most gratefully acknowledge this kindness.