The Old Mansion

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌⁠Down on Long Beach, that narrow strip of sand which stretches along the New Jersey coast from Barnegat Inlet on the north to Little Egg Harbor Inlet on the south, the summer sojourner at some one of the numerous resorts, which of late years have sprung up every few miles, may, in wandering over the sand dunes just across the bay from the village of Manahawkin, stumble over some charred timbers or