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5 shillings per day—lighter work 4 shillings per day—
pretty high wages—don't see how living can be so cheap.
Yet we were shown a lovely new house, white as the
driven snow, situated on a lovely rocky point running
out into the sea—said the house and grounds only cost
$900, which was probably a lie. In New England or New
York that house would cost $10,000, without the ground,
that is, if the inside work is at all in keeping with the
outside. There are not twelve houses in Hartford as pic-
turesque and as beautiful and captivating to the eye as
this $900 affair.
A good deal of change during the half-century
or so since then.
Hamilton is the place for pretty outsides.
Saw one outcrop of hard limestone—all the rest of the
island is coral. By the queer and abrupt dip it has in a
thousand places, suppose it was hove up from below sur-
face by earthquake.
Our darky said that here everybody knows everybody.
Presently (away on a country road) Twichell said,
"There's a little dog—seems lost and is worn out."
"He belongs to an old man named Yokes." So the
driver is acquainted with all the dogs too.
Well, he doesn't need to know many, for dogs are very
scarce. However, they make it up in cats.
Cedar is a pretty enough tree except when it is the
prevailing tree, then it is not so pleasant. In fact the cedar
is so everywhere that you almost get the impression that
it is the only tree here.
Pretty little bird on wall—had to stir him up with
whip handle to make him move—so he moved a foot and
grumbled about it—and we left him there.
A country cottage here with its cozy comfort bedded in
among a wealth of brilliant scarlet geraniums and other
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