FOREWORD
These essays—thumbnail sketches of Cape Cod—should not be taken as a serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people. They merely express a perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday land, to-day the playground of thousands of Americans, three hundred years ago the first “land of the free and home of the brave.”
Acknowledgments are here given to the Atlantic Monthly for permission to include “A By-Product of Conservation” and “Scallops,” to The Outlook for the same courtesy for “A Blue Streak,” and to The House Beautiful for “A Casual Dwelling-Place.”
THE AUTHORS.
January, 1920.
CONTENTS
| I. | A Message from the Past | [1] |
| II. | The Casual Dwelling-Place | [10] |
| III. | The Ubiquitous Clam | [27] |
| IV. | A By-Product of Conservation | [38] |
| V. | Motor Tyrannicus | [51] |
| VI. | “Change and Rest”—Summer Bargaining | [69] |
| VII. | A Blue Streak | [87] |
| VIII. | A Fresh-Water Cape | [97] |
| IX. | Al Fresco | [112] |
| X. | Models | [122] |
| XI. | “A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea” | [132] |
| XII. | My Cape Farm | [140] |
| XIII. | Scallops | [154] |
| Aftermath | [166] |
