CAPE-CODDITIES

CAPE
CODDITIES

By

DENNIS and MARION
CHATHAM

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HAROLD CUE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

FOREWORD

These essays—thumbnail sketchesof Cape Cod—should not be taken asa serious attempt to describe the Capeor to delineate its people. They merelyexpress a perennial enthusiasm forthis summer holiday land, to-day theplayground of thousands of Americans,three hundred years ago the first“land of the free and home of thebrave.”

Acknowledgments are here given tothe Atlantic Monthly for permission toinclude “A By-Product of Conservation”and “Scallops,” to The Outlook forthe same courtesy for “A Blue Streak,”and to The House Beautiful for “ACasual Dwelling-Place.”

THE AUTHORS.

January, 1920.

CONTENTS

I.A Message from the Past1
II.The Casual Dwelling-Place10
III.The Ubiquitous Clam27
IV.A By-Product of Conservation38
V.Motor Tyrannicus51
VI.“Change and Rest”—Summer Bargaining69
VII.A Blue Streak87
VIII.A Fresh-Water Cape97
IX.Al Fresco112
X.Models122
XI.“A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea”132
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