TO CLARENCE J. BLAKE AND FRANCES H. BLAKE, A BOOK FINISHED ON THEIR OWN WILD ACRES OF THE MAINE COAST. THE contents of this book have, hitherto, never been printed nor published. One chapter among them, _The Provider_, is based very literally on a tragic thing which happened, some years ago, in Dublin, and which, figuring as a cable despatch of some ten lines in a Boston daily newspaper, fell under my eye, to be remembered, and afterwards cast into its present form. In the September (1895) number of _Harpers' Magazine_, little Father Time and his adopted brother, in _Hearts Insurgent_, end their innocent lives from Hughey's strange motive, though not in his manner. It is perhaps worth while…
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