LXXV.--Saratoga Trunks. 312

LXXVI.--The Dolly Varden. 314

LXXVII.--Starting for Long Branch. 320

LXXVIII.--That Hair-trunk. 323

LXXIX.--At the Branch. 326

LXXX.--The Race-course. 328

LXXXI.--Climbing Sea Cliff. 332

LXXXII.--Fighting for the Body. 335

LXXXIII.--Lions and Lambs. 337

LXXXIV.--Experiences. 240

LXXXV.--The Second Day. 342

LXXXVI.--The Blacksmith's Conversion. 347

LXXXVII.--That Ovation of Fire. 352

LXXXVIII.--Let Him Go. 359

LXXXIX.--Done Up in a Hurry. 362

XC.--The Yellow Flag. 367

XCI.--The Man that Saved Me. 370

XCII.--Pleasure Bay. 375

XCIII.--Netting Crabs. 379

XCIV.--Extra Politeness. 384

XCV.--The Clam-bake. 387

XCVI.--That Clam-bake. 390

XCVII.--One Hour of Heaven. 392

XCVIII.--C. O. D. 309

XCIX.--Taken In. 404

PHOEMIE FROST'S EXPERIENCES.

I.

LEAVING HOME.

I have made up my mind. Having put my hand to the plough, it isn't in me
to back out of a duty when duty and one's own wishes sail amicably in
the same canoe. I am going to give myself up to the good of mankind and
the dissemination of great moral ideas.

Selected by the Society of Infinite Progress as its travelling
missionary, with power to spread the most transcendental of New England
ideas throughout the world, I shall take up my cross and go forth.

The evening after the Society had crowned me with this honor, I asked
Aunt Kesiah and Uncle Ben Frost, who have been working the farm on
shares ever since my father died, if they could not make out to do
without me for some months, or weeks, or years, just as duty or my own
feelings took a notion to stay.

Aunt Kesiah sat right down