Title: The Tides Of Barnegat

Author: F. Hopkinson Smith



THE TIDES OF BARNEGAT




CHAPTER I



THE DOCTOR'S GIG


One lovely spring morning--and this story begins
on a spring morning some fifty years or more ago--
a joy of a morning that made one glad to be alive,
when the radiant sunshine had turned the ribbon
of a road that ran from Warehold village to Barnegat
Light and the sea to satin, the wide marshes to
velvet, and the belts of stunted pines to bands of
purple--on this spring morning, then, Martha Sands,
the Cobdens' nurse, was out with her dog Meg. She
had taken the little beast to the inner beach for a
bath--a custom of hers when the weather was fine
and the water not too cold--and was returning to