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As Captain Josiah Dimick always says: "Bayport is all north and south, like a codfish line. It puts me in mind of Seth Higgins's oldest boy. He was so tall and thin that when they bought a suit of clothes for him, they used to take reefs in the sides of the jacket and use the cloth to piece onto the bottoms of the trousers' legs."
The other side's got almost all the powder and the men. Heman and Tad and that Thomas have got seven eighths of Bayport behind 'em, not to mention the 'Providence' they're so sure of. My crowd is a mighty forlorn hope: Dimick and Ase Tidditt, and Bailey, as much as his wife 'll let him. Oh, yes!" and he smiled whimsically, "there's another one. A new recruit's just joined; Georgianna's enlisted.
Why don't you write of something near by, something or somebody you are acquainted with?" "Acquainted with! You're crazy, man. What am I acquainted with, except this house, and myself and my books and and Bayport?" "That's enough. Why, there is material in that gang at the post-office to make a dozen books. Write about them." "Tut! tut! tut! You ARE crazy.
"Your home is in Bayport, Massachusetts, I see by the passenger list," he went on. "Is that Bayport on Cape Cod, may I ask?" "Yes," I replied, more puzzled than ever. "I once knew a Knowles from your town, sir. He was a seafaring man like myself. His name was Philander Knowles, and when I knew him he was commander of the bark 'Ranger." "He was my father," I said. Captain Stone extended his hand.
I even began to dress for dinner, a concession to English custom which was odd enough in one of my easy-going habits and Bayport rearing. I imagine that the immaculate appearance of young Bayliss, when he dropped in for the "sing" in the drawing-room, was responsible for the resurrection of my dinner coat. He did look so disgustingly young and handsome and at ease.
Hired a team in Sandwich and another in Bayport and got to the tavern about eleven. That's the yarn. And here's your note. Maybe it tells where she's gone and why." The minister took the note and tore open the envelope. Within was a single sheet of paper. He read a few lines, stopped, and uttered an exclamation. "What's the matter?" asked the captain. Ellery did not answer.
And gettin' to Trumet at three o'clock in the mornin' would be " "Then we won't go to Trumet. We'll go to Bayport. It's quite a trip, but that's all the better 'cause we won't make Bayport till daylight. Then we'll hunt up a parson to marry us and come back here and tell folks when we get good and ready.
Why, Hosy, he's the livin' image of Asaph Tidditt back in Bayport. If Ase could afford clothes like that he might be his twin brother. Well! I guess that's enough. I don't want to see that Princess any more. Just as like as not she'd look like Susanna Wixon." Her criticisms were not confined to passengers of other nationalities. Some of our own came in for comment quite as severe.
I doubt if you could find the way, even with your horse's help. I must insist upon going with you as far as the main road between Denboro and Bayport." "I shall not permit it." "But I insist." Her answer was a little laugh. She put her foot in the stirrup and vaulted to the saddle. "Your insisting is useless, you see," she said. "You are on foot and I have the advantage.
Barnabas and Ardelia were invited. Strickland Morley was invited also. Morley, at that time I saw a good deal of him afterward, when he was at Bayport and when I was at the Cahoon house on holidays and vacations was a handsome, aristocratic young Englishman. He was twenty-eight, but he looked younger.
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