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By William John Hopkins
THE CLAMMER AND THE SUBMARINE.
THOSE GILLESPIES. Illustrated.
BURBURY STOKE.
CONCERNING SALLY.
THE MEDDLINGS OF EVE.
OLD HARBOR.
THE CLAMMER.
JUVENILE
THE DOERS. Illustrated.
THE INDIAN BOOK. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
THE CLAMMER AND THE
SUBMARINE
THE CLAMMER AND
THE SUBMARINE
BY WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY WILLIAM JOHN HOPKINS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1917
THE CLAMMER AND THE
SUBMARINE
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I | 3 |
| CHAPTER II | 33 |
| CHAPTER III | 59 |
| CHAPTER IV | 85 |
| CHAPTER V | 127 |
| CHAPTER VI | 164 |
| CHAPTER VII | 200 |
| CHAPTER VIII | 238 |
| CHAPTER IX | 265 |
| CHAPTER X | 295 |
| CHAPTER XI | 327 |
THE CLAMMER AND THE SUBMARINE
I
Down under my great pine is a pleasant place—even in April, if it isbut warm enough, and if the sun is shining, and if there is no greatwind, and if what wind there is comes from the southwest. It is not sopleasant—I know many pleasanter—if the wind is from the northwest,howling and shrieking as it does often in the winter, picking up thefine snow and whirling it back, leaving the top of my bluff as clean asthough it had been swept. Such a wind roars through the ancient branchesof the pine, and twists them, and tears at[Pg 4] them as if it would tearthem off. My pine stands sentinel-like on the top of the bluff, somedistance from the edge, and its branches have withstood the winds ofmany winters. Its age must be measured in centuries, for it is a noblegreat tree; and in times long past it must have had fellows standingclose. It is a forest tree, and its great trunk rises twenty feetwithout a branch. But its fellows are gone, leaving no memory, and theancient pine n