Now he shipped many boxes of these to other seashore and mountain resorts.

He might have doubled his output had he chosen to employ help or to enlarge his plant, but he would not do so.

He had rented the old Winslow house furnished once to a summer tenant, but he never did so again, although he had many opportunities.

He lived alone in the addition to the little workshop, cooking his own meals, making his own bed, and sewing on his own buttons.
And on the day following that upon which Leander Babbitt enrolled to fight for Uncle Sam, Jedidah Edgar Wilfred Winslow was forty- five years old.
He was conscious of that fact when he arose.

It was a pleasant morning, the sun was rising over the notched horizon of the tumbling ocean, the breeze was blowing, the surf on the bar was frothing and roaring cheerily--and it was his birthday.