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Hyde. CHAPTER VII THE SCITUATE SHORE [Illustration] Scituate is different: different from Cohasset, with its superbly bold coast and its fashionable folk; different from Hingham, with its air of settled inland dignity. HAND CHAPTER SEVEN THE SITUATE SHORE SITUATE IS DIFFERENT DIFFERENT FROM COHASIT WITH ITS SUPERBLY BOLD COAST AND ITS FASHIONABLE FOLK DIFFERENT FROM HINGHAM WITH ITS AIR OF SETTLED INLAND DIGNITY
 the men hurried to him to buy corn, he greeted them with "Well, boys, so you've come down to Egypt to buy corn." Another proof, if one were needed, of the Biblical familiarity of those days. It is hard to stop writing about Cohasset. There are so many bits of history tucked into every ledge and cranny of her shore. The green in front of the old white meeting-house--one of the prettiest and most perfect meeting-houses on the South Shore--has been pressed by the feet of men assembling for six wars. It makes Cohasset seem venerable, indeed, when one thinks of the march of American history. But to the tawny ledges, tumbling out to sea, these three hundred years are as but a day; for the story of the stones, like the story of the stars, is measured in terms of milliards. To such immemorial keepers of the coast the life of man is a brief tale that is soon told, and fades as swiftly as the fading leaf. [Illustration] FOOTNOTES: [1] For much of this chapter I am indebted to my friend Alice C.  CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE OLD COAST ROAD FROM BOSTON TO PLYMOUTH BY AGNES EDWARDS THIS LIVER BOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN RECORDING BY K
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