PILGRIM TRAILS
A PLYMOUTH-TO-PROVINCETOWN SKETCHBOOK
BY
FRANCES LESTER WARNER
With Drawings
By E. SCOTT WHITE
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON
Copyright, 1921, by
The Atlantic Monthly Press
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Site of First House, Leyden Street
John Alden's House, Duxbury (1653)
The Standish House, Duxbury (1666)
The Winslow House, Marshfield (1699)
The Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown
CHAPTER I
PLYMOUTH TOWNE
"There!" said the artist, "isn't that a nautical-looking house?"
When the artist says that a house is nautical, he means that it looks asif it had been built by seafaring men; not by wealthy ship-owners, butby generations of skippers and men before the mast. When you build anautical house, you should begin more than a hundred years ago with asmall cottage on the side-hill over the harbor, and add on a snug cabinnow and then, tucking in a shipshape companionway here and there, andrunning a new section out along