The Portygee

The Portygee
A Novel

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The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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1920

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The Portygee
A Novel

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A temperamental young man who wants to write poetry; a gruff old grandfather; two charming girls; a host of lovable villagers--these are the characters. Romance; quiet, chuckling humor; whimsical philosophy; a strong plot--these are the ingredients.

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ty he had sneered inwardly at a one-horse railroad which ran no Pullmans on its Cape branch in winter time. Now he forgot his longing for mahogany veneer and individual chairs and would gladly have boarded a freight car, provided there were in it a lamp and a stove.

The light in the station was extinguished and the agent came out with a jingling bunch of keys and locked the door. "Good-night, Jim," he shouted, and walked off into the blackness. Jim responded with a "good-night" of his own and climbed aboard the wagon, into the dark interior of which the doctor had preceded him. The boy at the other end of the platform began to be really alarmed. It looked as if all living things were abandoning him and he was to be left marooned, to starve or freeze, provided he was not blown away first.

He picked up the suitcase--an expensive suitcase it was, elaborately strapped and buckled, with a telescope back and gold fittings--and hastened toward the wagon. Mr. Young had just picked up the reins.

"Oh,--o

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Plot bullets

A grandson comes to live with his mothers parents, after the death of his father.
The relationship is strained, as his mother ran off with a man of whom her parents did not approve.
Time and closeness changes a lot.
The war changes a lot.
Some youthful dreams die.
Some do not.


Another one of Lincoln's retired sea captain's to the rescue. He changes the lives of several, and makes some changes himself.
Plot bullets

A grandson comes to live with his mothers parents, after the death of his father.
The relationship is strained, as his mother ran off with a man of whom her parents did not approve.
Time and closeness changes a lot.
The war changes a lot.
Some youthful dreams die.
Some do not.


Another one of Lincoln's retired sea captain's to the rescue. He changes the lives of several, and makes some changes himself.