Learning to Go to Sea on Shore, by George Wright. Originally published in the November 1918 issue of Harper’s Magazine

It is a small hotel compared with the fashionable resorts farther down the Atlantic shore, but it is Stanley Budd’s living. For the past year, however, it has looked as if that living might be swept away on the rising tide of war.

When he bought the hotel in 1935, it was a rather gaunt-looking frame-and-stucco structure. Since then, Budd has made the place over, but the changes were a heavy drain on his limited finances. In…