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one-legged Hero had come home from the wars completely well and
sound in mind. So the two men sat together in love by the Christmas
fire, and saw the tin soldiers melt away.
SALVAGE POINT
The Hermanns built their house at the very end of the island, five
or six miles from the more or less violently rustic "summer-cottages"
which adorned the hills and bluffs around the native village of
Winterport.
There was a long point running out to the southward at the mouth
of the great bay, rough and rocky for the most part, with little
woods of pointed firs on it, some acres of pasture, and a few
pockets of fertile soil lying between the stony ridges. A yellow
farmhouse, with a red barn beside it, had nestled for near a hundred
years in one of these hollows, buying shelter from the winter winds
at the cost of an outlook over sea and shore.
It was a large price to pay. The view from the summit of the little
hill a few hundred yards away was superb--a wonder even on that
wonderful coast of Maine where mountain and sea meet together,
forest and flood kiss each other.
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