CULM ROCK,

The Story of a Year:

WHAT IT BROUGHT AND WHAT IT TAUGHT.

BY

GLANCE GAYLORD.

BOSTON:

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

HENRY HOYT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Innes and Niles,

Stereotypers and Printers,

37 Cornhill, Boston.

CONTENTS.

CULM ROCK.

CHAPTER I.

The Old Stone House

ulm rock was a wild place. You might search the coast for miles and not find another bit of nature so bare and rent and ragged as this. So fiercely had the storms driven over it, so wildly had the wind and waves beat, that the few cedars which once flourished as its only bit of greenness were long ago dead, and now held up only bleached and ragged hands. Jutting out into the sea, the surf rolled and thundered along its jagged shore of rock and sand, and was