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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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We
got
to
watching
on
the
headlands;
my
men
and
me
knew
the
people
were
short
of
supplies
and
had
to
pinch
themselves.
It
ought
to
read
in
the
Bible,
'Man
cannot
live
by
fish
alone,'
if
they'd
told
the
truth
of
things;
'taint
bread
that
wears
the
worst
on
you!
First
part
of
the
time,
old
Gaffett,
that
I
lived
with,
seemed
speechless,
and
I
didn't
know
what
to
make
of
him,
nor
he
of
me,
I
dare
say;
but
as
we
got
acquainted,
I
found
he'd
been
through
more
disasters
than
I
had,
and
had
troubles
that
wa'n't
going
to
let
him
live
a
great
while.
It
used
to
ease
his
mind
to
talk
to
an
understanding
person,
so
we
used
to
sit
and
talk
together
all
day,
if
it
rained
or
blew
so
that
we
couldn't
get
out.
I'd
got
a
bad
blow
on
the
back
of
my
head
at
the
time
we
came
ashore,
and
it
pained
me
at
times,
and
my
strength
was
broken,
anyway;
I've
never
been
so
able
since.”
Captain
Littlepage
fell
into
a
reverie.
“Then
I
had
the
good
of
my
reading,”
he
explained
presently.
“I
had
no
books;
the
pastor
spoke
but
little
English,
and
all
his
books
were
foreign;
but
I
used
to
say
over
all
I
could
remember.
The
old
poets
little
knew
what
comfort
they
could
be
to
a
man.
I
was
well
acquainted
with
the
works
of
Milton,
but
up
there
it
did
seem
to
me
as
if
Shakespeare
was
the
king;
he
has
his
sea
terms
very
accurate,
and
some
beautiful
passages
were
calming
to
the
mind.
I
could
say
them
over
until
I
shed
tears;
there
was
nothing
beautiful
to
me
in
that
place
but
the
stars
above
and
those
passages
of
verse.
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