Bellport, Long Island,
June 25, 1895.
CONTENTS
PAGE [The Pot of Gold] 11 [The Bogy of the Beach] 41 [The Mower’s Phantom] 59 [Enchanted Treasure] 96 [The Money Ship] 115 [Widow Molly] 142 [The Mineral-Rod] 188 [Notes] 208
“On old Long Island’s sea-girt shore,
Many an hour I’ve whiled away.”
THE POT OF GOLD
Fire Island Beach is a barrier of sand, stretching for twenty miles along the south coast of Long Island, and separating the Great South Bay from the Atlantic ocean.
To reach it, you must make a sail of from three to seven miles, and once upon it, you find it a wild, desolate, solitary spot, wind-searched and surf-pounded.