Preface: You said it, didn't you? Or, if you didn't say it, you thought it. It was summer time perhaps, vacations season, and you had dropped in at the "Mountain Shop " or the "Sea Wind Shoppe." Or, in case your vacation locale is not sufficiently up to date to boast a "shoppe", possibly you visited teh "Centre Variety Store, P. Higgins, Proprietor. Gents' Furnishings, Ladies' outfittings, Hats, Caps, Bathing Suits, Fishing Tackle, Toys , Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Stationary, Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Soft Drinks, Ice Cream, Novelties and Souvenirs." This book came about as the author was reminiscing with friends about the Old Cape Cod. If you care to "I remember" for a while; if you wish to linger for a little with old times on the Cape-- not very , very old times; at the most not more than a generation ago-- if you care to travel lazily back to boyhood or girlhood spent in whole or part on the "right arm of Massachusetts," you are cordially invited to join us.