_Published April 1916_




TO THOSE WHO

"_Enforst to seek some shelter nigh at hand_"

HAVE FOUND THE HILLS OF HINGHAM




PREFACE

The is not exactly the book I thought it was going to be--though I can
say the same of its author for that matter. I had intended this book
to set forth some features of the Earth that make it to be preferred to
Heaven as a place of present abode, and to note in detail the peculiar
attractions of Hingham over Boston, say,--Boston being quite the best
city on the Earth to live in. I had the book started under the title
"And this Our Life"

. . . exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,"

--when, suddenly, war broke out, the gates of Hell swung wide open into
Belgium, and Heaven began to seem the better place. Meanwhile, a
series of lesser local troubles had been brewing--drouth, caterpillars,