The call of home while most always an interruption and an unwelcome one was usually in the end a pleasant experience especially at the end of a day of play. Cleaning up for supper meant clean hands and face and nails, shoes and stockings on again, hair brushed and voices suitable. It was nice to be ready and hungry for supper and it was nice to play a game of checkers after or to hear a good story read. Bed time and dreams of other and better adventures to come and then the awaking to a new day. Like magic itself was the growing up of each child with each adventure forgetting yesterday, in dreams running to meet tomorrow, yet truly living every moment that passed. Rainy tomorrows were not spent in regret for lack of sun. Fish always bit best on rainy days and rubber boots and slickers were inventions fit for the imaginations of a lively family of eight to whom weather time and place were always right for living adventures. Perhaps the crooked road the old house and barn and all they held, the woods the lakes and fields had much to do with making such a happy family, at any rate--there they were. [Illustration] CHAPTER XIII. PELEG BURGESS Peleg Burgess, 1840-1931, by purchase from his brother, Phineas Franklin Burgess, became the sole owner of the homestead and kept the property until October 17, 1918, when at the age of 78 he sold it to his children. In 1923, Book 1445, Page 428, it is recorded that it was granted back to him for his lifetime use when he had sold it to his four daughters, Annie, Charlotte, Susan and Mary and his son Harrison for $300.00 each. Peleg’s home on Union Street was sold in 1930 to these children and his son Walter, then of California, in addition. As a young man, Peleg had wanted to be a sea captain and started training early in life. He spent some time in Bangkok, then Siam, during the Civil War, at the age of 22, because of ship movement problems brought on by the war. He brought back a large dictionary and many small art treasures from the Far East. He did not live regularly at the homestead, but his father Phineas did so. At the age of 27 Peleg married Ann Jane Nicol, 1843-1891, on July 22, 1867. They had eight children: Annie Sprague, 1868-1956; Harrison Nicol, 1870-1954; Frances Allison, 1872-1896; Charlotte Jane, 1875-1934; Susan Howland, 1878-1968; and Mary Alma, born 1885. Six years after the death of Ann Nicol in 1891, he married Henrietta Lavender of Provincetown in 1897. During his career, Peleg lived for a time in Boston, where he was engaged in construction. In Plymouth he participated in construction of Plymouth Cordage Company buildings and the original part of Jordan Hospital. He also built houses on Union Street where the family home is located. He played the violin well and served for a time as organist at the Baptist Church. He was proficient in carpentry, cabinet making and surveying.