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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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“I
have
thought
of
that
myself,”
I
returned,
with
my
interest
quite
awakened.
“It
accounts
for
the
change
in
a
great
many
things,--the
sad
disappearance
of
sea-captains,--doesn't
it?”
“A
shipmaster
was
apt
to
get
the
habit
of
reading,”
said
my
companion,
brightening
still
more,
and
taking
on
a
most
touching
air
of
unreserve.
“A
captain
is
not
expected
to
be
familiar
with
his
crew,
and
for
company's
sake
in
dull
days
and
nights
he
turns
to
his
book.
Most
of
us
old
shipmasters
came
to
know
'most
everything
about
something;
one
would
take
to
readin'
on
farming
topics,
and
some
were
great
on
medicine,--but
Lord
help
their
poor
crews!--or
some
were
all
for
history,
and
now
and
then
there'd
be
one
like
me
that
gave
his
time
to
the
poets.
I
was
well
acquainted
with
a
shipmaster
that
was
all
for
bees
an'
beekeepin';
and
if
you
met
him
in
port
and
went
aboard,
he'd
sit
and
talk
a
terrible
while
about
their
havin'
so
much
information,
and
the
money
that
could
be
made
out
of
keepin'
'em.
He
was
one
of
the
smartest
captains
that
ever
sailed
the
seas,
but
they
used
to
call
the
Newcastle,
a
great
bark
he
commanded
for
many
years,
Tuttle's
beehive.
There
was
old
Cap'n
Jameson:
he
had
notions
of
Solomon's
Temple,
and
made
a
very
handsome
little
model
of
the
same,
right
from
the
Scripture
measurements,
same's
other
sailors
make
little
ships
and
design
new
tricks
of
rigging
and
all
that.
No,
there's
nothing
to
take
the
place
of
shipping
in
a
place
like
ours.
These
bicycles
offend
me
dreadfully;
they
don't
afford
no
real
opportunities
of
experience
such
as
a
man
gained
on
a
voyage.
No:
when
folks
left
home
in
the
old
days
they
left
it
to
some
purpose,
and
when
they
got
home
they
stayed
there
and
had
some
pride
in
it.
There's
no
large-minded
way
of
thinking
now:
the
worst
have
got
to
be
best
and
rule
everything;
we're
all
turned
upside
down
and
going
back
year
by
year.”
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