Joseph Crosby Lincoln

This is a tale of life on a fictionalized Cape Cod. The heroes are bigger than life, the villains are meaner, and the Cape Cod villagers are delightful caricatures of their types.

Here is Mr. Pratt again-the jolly old Cape Cod fisherman, who manages to have more ludicrous adventures than a dozen ordinary mortals, and who tells about them in a breezy, salty fashion that is delicious. In this story Mr. Pratt by chance anchors his dory off the grounds of the Sea Breeze Bluff Sanitarium for Right Living and Rest. Almost immediately he finds himself standing kneedeep in water carrying a "hefty' squirming madien lady, while a bulldog...

"The author describes this Cape Cod story as 'not a novel, but merely a summer farce-comedy, a 'yarn."--goodreads.com.