For The Queen

On r.tip upper or nbrthern end of the Island of Westport, anciently e Squam, and situated in the Sheepscot on the Maine coast, sto!': e, old fashioned house, built o" heavy timbers, having one n: . oHimney in the center. 1; 1 and inhabited by a sea-f man by the name of Clough, who on foreign voyages. It was in the time of the French olution, when this captain was on e voyage to France.that he was engaged by the agents of the king and Marie Antoinette to bring them se:re!y to America. Their wardrobe and some of their furniture was already placed on the ship, and the king and queen were driven.quietly down te the quay, where the ship's small boat was in waiting to take them off to the vessel. At the same moment secret agents of the revolution arrived jiist in time to arrest their king and queen Just as they had alighted from their carriage. Their majesties were then removed to prison. There they were soon after guillotined. .As soon as he found what had happened Captain Clough put to sea with all haste, having the wardrobe and the furniture of the king and queen or. board his ship. After a long voyage he arrived at Westport, Me., safely and stored the queen's wardrobe and furniture in his own house on Squam Island. Tradition says that visitors to the house used sometimes to see these things, and pieces of the queen's drosses are still kept by the Clough descendants, who live in Edgecomb just opposite Westport. On account of what I have narrated above the house carne to be called the "Marie Antoinette House." Quite a long while after the events I have mentioned the old house was ferried across on scows to the opposite shore of Edgecomb, and placed high on the bank back from the river's brink, where it now stands, and is still Inhahiterl Many photographs have been taken of it by sunimer tourists, and many have written lts history. But what I have written was told me by the "oldest i habitante," who received it as I teil it from their fathers and mothers. Aftr-, the house was moved to the ECffacnreb shore it was inhabited by a : man narred Gardiner Gore, who kept a large store and was quite weaithy One nijrfct an old lady of the sanie' town, cailed "Old Aunt Hood," who was giren to dreaming dreams dreamed that the bungs had all been pulled out of his molasses hogsheads and that she saw the molasses run out all over the floor, and thereupon she told her dream and declared that Gard" would soon be poor, and, in fact, he died soon after a poor man.