LXX.--Preparing for Sea. 296 LXXI.--Yacht-racing. 300 LXXII.--Music that is Music. 304 LXXIII.--Hubbishness. 306 LXXIV.--Thunders of Music. 308 LXXV.--Saratoga Trunks. 312 LXXVI.--The Dolly Varden. 314 LXXVII.--Starting for Long Branch. 320 LXXVIII.--That Hair-trunk. 323 LXXIX.--At the Branch. 326 LXXX.--The Race-course. 328 LXXXI.--Climbing Sea Cliff. 332 LXXXII.--Fighting for the Body. 335 LXXXIII.--Lions and Lambs. 337 LXXXIV.--Experiences. 240 LXXXV.--The Second Day. 342 LXXXVI.--The Blacksmith's Conversion. 347 LXXXVII.--That Ovation of Fire. 352 LXXXVIII.--Let Him Go. 359 LXXXIX.--Done Up in a Hurry. 362 XC.--The Yellow Flag. 367 XCI.--The Man that Saved Me. 370 XCII.--Pleasure Bay. 375 XCIII.--Netting Crabs. 379 XCIV.--Extra Politeness. 384 XCV.--The Clam-bake. 387 XCVI.--That Clam-bake. 390 XCVII.--One Hour of Heaven. 392 XCVIII.--C. O. D. 309 XCIX.--Taken In. 404 PHŒMIE FROST'S EXPERIENCES. I. LEAVING HOME. I have made up my mind. Having put my hand to the plough, it isn't in me to back out of a duty when duty and one's own wishes sail amicably in the same canoe. I am going to give myself up to the good of mankind and the dissemination of great moral ideas. Selected by the Society of Infinite Progress as its travelling missionary, with power to spread the most transcendental of New England ideas throughout the world, I shall take up my cross and go forth. The evening after the Society had crowned me with this honor, I asked Aunt Kesiah and Uncle Ben Frost, who have been working the farm on shares ever since my father died, if they could not make out to do without me for some months, or weeks, or years, just as duty or my own feelings took a notion to stay. Aunt Kesiah sat right down in the rocking-chair, and looked straight in my face for a whole minute without speaking.