THE MEDITERRANEAN AND PARIS It was, I think, the year previous to this that my mother and father had deserted Point Pleasant as a place to spend their summer vacations in favor of Marion, on Cape Cod, and Richard and I, as a matter of course, followed them there.

At that time Marion was a simple little fishing village where a few very charming people came every summer and where the fishing was of the best.

In all ways the life was most primitive, and happily continued so for many years.

In, these early days Grover Cleveland and his bride had a cottage there, and he and Joseph Jefferson, who lived at Buzzard's Bay, and my father went on daily fishing excursions.

Richard Watson Gilder was one of the earliest settlers of the summer colony, and many distinguished members of the literary and kindred professions came there to visit him.