MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass.

In the Manner of Sinclair Lewis

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1620.

Late autumn.

The sour liver-colored shores of America.

Breaking waves dashing too high on a stern and rockbound coast.

Woods tossing giant branches planlessly against a stormy sky.

Cape Cod Bay--wet and full of codfish. The codfish--wet and full
of bones.

Standing on the deck of the anchored "Mayflower", gazing
reflectively at the shores of the new world, is Priscilla
Kennicott.

A youthful bride on a ship full of pilgrims; a lily floating in a
dish of prunes; a cloissone vase in a cargo of oil cans.

Her husband joins her. Together they go forward to where their
fellow pilgrims are preparing to embark in small boats.