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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Iuueu itstter Eplaffcruc. =


Rom mchbeIes, at BEN tpIfe &arotnal
anY9& @citrGbeIier pnn at ooerheot'e
Eapcu ON, at Set tpIfe Spungsitpre
IoIeu par berettigct % rcttGrot8t,
bar opret foreirpes. @aon Ingoe III
0orbiruIen rent ,,b. Of ban life t1;noe
tiniae BEN tuIfe llnbertrpfFeIie al No
Ioffrrres Sprce / &cIigiorSunoer'
oiSninaen, Ificnt ban fprsorist on
SfcSc at ftaa paa en- scS 6cb meo Den
mifc 4eiicr. Oct fortGIes, at 8etle'
rem hapbc paalast aarbinal 8opp al
rruae fsleenoe Irgimert ooertor
Rooer: aatuIiferue bruger iom be-
ficnSt Ell bel Del 9atin, inm tu9el
iorimar; iii foritaar Golafterue Sp'f
Ga Sa maatte set rGre bebre FOR Den
at bruce bette SproG iom De tor'
itnor. eub 9atiu, ion De life for
Itoor. GA Yapen bsrte bette, lpareo'
nan irouif, at aeiier 8iIbeIm pn'
oniet Tor at bore cn IGro 0tanS, rtel
tbeologiFfe Sager ioritoo ban JIG "a
bcrtbart life paa. Suroinal &np'
IfIsnte, at oct par iimIIigt at rott
Goper paa bette Ylrnft % er III peno
bicm til SpIflano meS uiOrrcttc
lSag.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07

incomes Sen LANCE ~,rfienbte Horopeit'
fpIt al 2an6et melIem @ictoria 2ano
% 8ri1rS IIbert 2anO, Lungs SIC.
Gltntod aonaler, hoiIfet / os for Jig
er en- 9eorift al Gang. @nboibere
or minSre fien6te 6arpnnb lungs
Imerttus Nor0fpit urber1egt, % til
6eIS lo0Set og fnrtlngt. 8e0 Som.
oGr neS De ForboI6Sois tibet fierbte
81 imoitam1ner er oGbifulbe etno'
groftIfe Samlir9er o9 Sagttdgelier
bIeoet giort, % beslthen brtnge8 ureo
biem ~5oologtife, botantife og gedogt'
lie SamIinger oip., iom peo geurbei-
belle life fan feile at gtoe pprotr1lot
rioenffobeligt l1obptte. af life mtno't
@prSi er set itore WnteriaIe al mete'
proIogiIfe Sbierbattoner, iom meo
pnaltSeGiqe Snitrumenter er heuet
iamIet / 6isie glar. 3ertil fan eto'
uihere npones oftronomtffe Sbierro.
tiouer, S%agttageIier al Stoeodno olo.,
iom oIt er Of S~SSrteresic.
9en anoen Gel al @rpeottioner,
u~6fsreIier al 9orooeItpasiagen, er
rem crbeItge Spnnaelie Of ct gien'
mem fire 6unSreoe glor iDrig efter'
Itrpbt Iool, bporfor Der / StoerneS
Sob er ofret ltbpre Slurrrer og meget
arbeibe meS Cab al mango Oeerrne-
ifeIip. Oct err en- 9aab, iom bar 1T
Stbejtpffe / IorberifislSs llOfsraie
Of RorSoitposiagen unoer bans BE-
fiertSte gesoiarS. Set er ct mGrfe'
Itat ErGt at mebens andre bur ienat
lto GrpeSitton efter @rpeottiors inut
bureSe geiert, foa iflISe bet forbebol'
Ses be to SoLf poa ben fanStnaptife
Salns, ferite Sang De forisgte oct, at
rbfsre besse bisie 9eSrifter, iom bar
paret i~isfarenSe Gationers Srsm
gietnem 9arbIrroreoer.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Snngcrsnpocn | GnslanS icr no til

at BIZ rprre | 8inter emo rogeniinoe
Tor. s iuo 8ropinier, Samaru, So
ratpip, SembirIf, Snian, Benia,
Eonrbotp % lila Hog al IpIing totolt
fell, % set antugeS, at omfrtng 20
Winioner Reuucifer bill trGrtge
SiGIp / iamiuIoe fire Waaueber for
at berae 2ioct occr 8interer. s Here
az Sisie Bropinier bar Der | Ssbet al
6e ii6ite 10 aar tin pPret ct bra Iar
for 2anSmanbeiL bporfor Ell ltor Del
al 9ciolfningen bar Iiot Heo / aare'
cis. Observation-Disclosures ertl1'
rer. at Sc uiI tr9rge rs Htuioner
Dollars for at linore Ben pGrite steo
i 8inter. 3 flentme Sungersaar
pIeicr gpiScmicr al SungertpfuS %
Stisrbtg at inbfirbe Jig / 6ebutar,
men ur or 0isie iorfGroelige Sar'ot'
ter oIcrcSc uSbrltbt / Srla, 8a'nr
ca Samaro. S a~aian'Frootnlen er
SiIIturocn ino forfrroelig, at nsSlt'
Senoe TrriIier bar iolgt inc rn9t
Eiacr iom Slacer for at ienoes I'll
Riamrnb8 Saremer / &aufa'its.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Geuntpr Sobn 6. Spuoner / "

Geuutpr Sobn 6. Spppncr / 8is'
couiin bill monife msoe aSifiaig Gp'
petition, noar ban oeo lloIebet al fin
Sermin i 1909 bill iege @ienoalg
I'll Acknowledgement. Gct er rigtig-
uof enSnu noget tiOIig at begpnoe at
ipefuIere paa, ON ban fon bltoe
aieupoIgt eler life, men Der er oog
Dem, ION ier fin 6or0el peo at benz
gioe fig til %ioaoanue 6unoeringer
90 Der er natirligoiS nof al benz,
Icm tror, at De fan fplbe hans RlooS,
Get met tiItalenbe 6orEoe | OeunC
Sorbin6eIie timber hi u0tali | ct SGr'
teIearam til en- Winneapolisapis.
boor 8,tocrnsr GapiSion incomes
ION miIig &anbioat Ill SeratoroPr'
6iabeSen. Gnpibion or en- populPI
% opgtig gianb, iom utptIiomt ptlot
giere fin Stot 9Grc ogiou / 8aibing.
ton. &mlte IeIion gif 10 Den ianrmt
Sci - ira @ilocrHsr til 6orbnno$
%ienator. 81 Ter intet / 8eicn for, a.
9upi6ion fan bIioc BEN fsrite noritt
Senator ira @iScpniiu.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07

Suerigc bar beilrttet at ienSe ct
eler lere 8risEfibe til at beltase |
5laaberepper / anIeonins aa6nin.
gen al ltbitiQingen | SamestOtpn,
8irginia, nGite CONNER, meoOsles
fra Stof5oIm. Zen ipenife &eaie'
ring bar un6errettet ben amerifauffe
Miniiter | Stofbplm, Scr. 8rapes,
herom.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Rp usTf'iapanciiif Grig?

NG rnsltf'1apnncNtf Nrtg! - Sru
Ct. Betersburg meooeIes, at ifisnt
Der / set pore berifer goo SorituaeIie
meDem MtsIartb % Sapun, er @m'
hebsmpnb | &rigS. % ltbenri8$oe'
portementerne al Sen Sormcnin8, at
acknowledgement fan brpoe lbs noor.
iombeIit paa @rlrnb At Sapaneiernes
5iIfcrier % fonmcrcieae 8irfi ombeo
/ Inulrs og Sransboifal.&e9ioucrn
/ Siiibirien. Tusierne oriper berfor
meb feberaetig Suit meo at mo6ili'
iere trooper % inrbebrc line Srans'
eortationsmioIer | Sibirier, me6enS
llbenrigsminiiter Sspolifi iler mel
at faa iitanb pcnTfGbeIige arran8e'
menter meo gngInnb og amerifa. III
ser boIoer pao of fomme ny &lrrt
paa Sraabeu meuem Ruslano % ga
pan bemmcIi9boIbeS imioIertib, Del:
al Seuim til Den iuore Sitliation
&uslanb og ocls for life at ~forItprrt
Observation-Disclosures ON npe rltSitIfO
, Statslaan.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Zen tpIfc Tissoas afIuttebe

Scn tpIfc IisSoas afluttebe
Sirsoag8 9e5anbIiugen al aoIoniat'
fprcrne, %foranIeoiget oeb &egierin'
gems 6orIangenbe ON SiaGgsbepiIa'
uingpr iii ~arigsllbgiiter" / tpIi
SpopeItafrifa. On bernie Gag oebot'
tcreoeS Scr / iamiulbe Ter Gage ue>
en- 9itterbeS, iom bar uiGooonli9
ieIo for ben tpife Higsoog at bore
Socioliiter, RaoifaIe og GentrunS'
mrno fuppeoes ON at berette SiIto'
rier ON aoIoni.g Establishments brit
tale % ffamIsie 9~ebanblitg al d
Sr6fpbte, iaa Regieringen Itooig'
Gou6c Spnbernc fuIbe me0 at for
iparc Jig.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07

Samburscr.Sinjen bar fisbt to npe
Gantperc for i'm sltIanterbaDstrafif,
buer pna 10000 Cons, meIoes fra
De Ill iaa Raprcne Obi.
cdgoe o. "gerIir". J,
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Sra uoldnoet.
Giecrus @numale nrcner nlnl1 nj

Giceros @rabmGic frcrier man III
al bare fnnoet / Rom, oct Til iige
2epninscrne Serai. Wan itsbtc paa
hisie Ritiner peb SormiG tGt oeb.
bpor ben itore EnIer bIeo mproct for
rGiten 1000 gar iioeu. De ianbtes
poa en- Sang meS prrgtig llbiigt baa.
Be oper gia appia % 8ia Sercula.
MINI.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
Gu 9snhe-9ag for Ssieifcrst.

gen moo Sberiff Sobn 8. Sbtpp fra
Sonriltcn Gointp, Sennesiee, % q
andre, Der er anfInset Ior at baoe on
Itiftet ct 8ompIot for at mprbe Be
oeren Go. Sobnior, er M fommet Op
for II. 9. Ssieiteret / @aibtnston.
Oct er pGientIis Sprisotttions.
spsrgsmanIet, iom bill bIi nfsiort al
Ssieiieret, oa 5iItalte barber, at Il.
2. SreoSret ingen SuriSotttion baoSe
i Saeen - til al begpnOe me0 - %
at set iom 5sIse beraf ienere BAR Jam.
me SiIieISe meS II. 2. Ssteiteret.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07
.Roalo 2munoiens
Storoado.

ltnber oenne Ooerfrift ffriper
Sriotiof Wanian / "DaorgenblaSet"
for 19be Hopember:
RoaIb @~arum6jens iibfte Serb Ell
fsrit og frenit en- otoenifubelig Grpe.
hilton at Bot 8ang. Derfor oil fan.
tie Sen itore sumenbeo life BABE let
for at opfatte Sens getpbning | iulb
lloitrGfning, og mango bill melt bette
fig peo bans og bans Sellers isine'
iaIberSe StorboaO: Dem ferite @ien-
nemieiIing az gtorooeitpaslasen.
Som gmnrSien ielo paa Scr.
bauno, me6 fin befeoue geitemtheo,
~frenrboISt. bar bans fsrite 90 pigtis'
tie 0aal at unSerisge Ggnene ONT
firing Dem magnetic RorSpol os Der
at uSfsre aareImge RRffer at ON.
begseliee n~tagnetiife Toalinger. Sor
bam fcm u6fsrelien al Roropeftpas-
iagen / anSen 8nffe, iom noget ban
f,lnbe tage meb, ON 9eilisbeSen boo
Itg. Iu itaar ban peS Usaalet, ban
bar fuIbfsrt begge 6isie itore og pan'
ffeIiee Opgaper, % mere til.
Raar en- grpe0itton er beIoig gien'
nemfsrt, itaar Ser gierne mango
bjpIpiomme ReSmenneffer fproise
til at paapfie, boorleOes ben &eiienSe
Far bapt 2pffcn nleo Jig; men
9tmruSiens iisite 6aro bar tnsen Sa'
iarb, og bens @iennemfsrelic life
6rugt al SeIo eller Satmpetr9f. Gen
err ira isrft til iiSit en- Wonos uofs'
relic al en- 8Ion, ban bar lagt me-
mooent SperlGg, % bpurtil ban bar
giort grunoige og ombpsgelise Sor'
terebelier.
6or R~ebifriperer beraf itaar belle
tenue SPto, nteS oens imaa Uttoler'
bens ombpseeIige 5orbereoeIIe, baa'
Sc p~ibenffnbeIig % praftiif, og Den
ppperlige IaoSc, boorpaa boer enc
tie Del al Blanen iiffert og maalbe'
Oibit er giememisrt, iom e al o.
beoit forbereote % beSit leoeoe Rolur'
crpeoitioner, Stitorien fienSer. y
Rorom9no far life ltoen 8rltno III
at tore tiIireS$ meb, OF netop oennt
Serb er uSeaoet fra Horge. Zen nt
Ter @qenifaher hos Noromgro, ion
life altio p9rbiGttes efter 0ortlere
ite: Sinoig Soerpeielie, grnnoll
glonlegselie og 6orberebelie, og Iaa
noor set b9rer los, uforfProet Baa
gaoenbco os ieis lloboloenbeo
ammoien bar bisie ggenifaber l IGr
Tia @rob. fspr benz, ion fierote BAN
bar bans uofsreIie al ben iio1te Scr
inoen SperruifeIie. Raar Ran paa IN
ItiIiprbige, men beitemte % tiutoo9t
fenoe Woonc iagbe, at ban n9teoe q
aiere en- Sin9. bar man life me9et
Epil ON, at bet piloe bltce giort. 80
han err al Dem, fom nsoi8 tiger 10
nteaet, beller liot minbre, emo bal
trpr, ban fan Hare.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07

q Gluuoifc cr ser / 1906 lioouu0et
Cub for $5,697, 942, % Den lam.
IeSc @l1Ioproouftion Der, iiocn @rap'
ningcn ferit bcgpnote, bclsber iig til
$112,7S6,572.
Shmoom, mar man IGicr ioo.
6unnc Gpgaprr, fan man iriiteS
I'll at iperae fig ieIo, ON al Ncnnc
8iq6om, alt bette @rIo, oqion / &tr'
feIiRbcocn bar giort @crocn rigerc.
gtauite, mar alt fomrncr til alt, al
sc mango br1fnrc 6orbuobnin8er, DC
bitrc SfufiC.icr % Ben nlegcn Glen
6iahc0 c~ocrhopcOct. iom @uINicbCreH
bar afieot. bar prrct Ct itGrre Sob,
en6 oi&ie IPiuipucr / @ulo Tan er'
iuttc. 81 Ooq, buem ujIoc uouc at
ooaitao, At life oct Nrbcioc, iom CT
uhiSrt oai,a ocu,0e / Nlo'to, or Ct
Giuiliio:ioncn2 TorpoitnrhciOc, Scr
Tom poo andre StC0cr, bpor ioo0ant
Nrbei0c uoisrca bar set frUCct itort
Sire - Gre, ION life fan oniTttcS
/ &Glgc; men Trcmtiocua SIU3tcl
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-12-07

Teoenior ifal Der blipe giort ct
6oriss poo, iaauibt NeofriperenS
fnappe SiN tinaoer, at i~remGoIoe en'
feIte Siber Of bet betpbningShtloe
llobptte, iont benne &eiie bar bragt.
Som ooenior fremboIot bar bets big
tiaIte IaaI at rmberisge @gnene ON
ielpe Den nragtettfe Noropcl.
fSor beorc at forflare SEN oioe1ifa'
belize @pr0i Of en- iaaban llnberie'
gclie pil m1ligens nogelr orienterett'
Sc ge1rrrfninger ONT ben magnetic
NorhpoI o. berrs Spoagele&biiprie
barre pau i'm Hlaos.
SorSfrpIcn cr at betragte iom en-
roterenSe M&agnet, bpis 8oler - Den
mnanetiIfc 4cropoI og BEN magnett'
lie SoopoI - life faloer iammen
ureo Sc gcografife 9cIer. Den mag
uetiife Noropol lisger ontrent 30
@reSoegroOcr fiernet ira Sen geogra'
fife Roropol / &etning al Canada
&C ct euer onbet SteS NOR NeriSia'
men for 100 @raoer oeit for @reet-
mid. Sen maenettffe SpSpoI Itgser
onto0cIiQ roget iaa n9r anttpoot't,
/ en- IiQnen0c aiiturrS fra eet 9eogra'
fife Spbpol, ct ener anSet Steo | o.
enSnu uficnote antarfttife egne. Sn'
ocn grpeSttton Dor cnbnu oGret
iitaro til at transe frem til ben mag
netiIfe Suopols 9arbeo. vi Sen11t
8runS, ca oeiaa iorSi Sen ltgeer o.
nrrmeit, bur ben magrretiife Noro.
BOZ btotiI bopt melt Srrteresfe Tor Dor
aienhIfab III SorbmaSnetismen, ION
bor 100 ftur getpSnirs b. q. FOL
aourpo&ict % bets @rrs.
fssrte Sang, gerSet lit fNt nor
mere S9Ir Suing on bent tta9r'etrt'
!. NorSaoIS nudge 9eligserbeo, na'
res Sir GSsparo Earrps betlenot
erveSftion for at firtSe RorSnGrpas
. iooen / tSt9-1s20. timber &arrp'
, mrrfeIiRe Seilaos peitcoer ira San
. roiter Souno, NOR IS Sr. II. Sr'
aioroc bans 2eoiaser Sabine ot9tl9
E maanctiifc S6ieroaticner. SeS Snc
r Iebet Ill 2ruaiter S@rnS (nGr sal
, inns srgtru) bar acmpasiets N1S
/. risuira 100 Sraoer mob Selt pa
, GOrupoQiS Sslano Cpaa cu'trent 8
Gr. 2rnsSe peit for Srecnptd) "a
MiSoisutnaen 129 @raSer moo Se'
1 mcoenS ocn paa Srpam &arttn y
'Iano (poa rs Or. II. Sr, 90 1o4 "
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
AA3 9H70ozG| AW ozaz9 1a9a LJh1q 6H

any reference to the boy of Labrador, which
consider very grave omission, and one that
this sketch is intended to rectify, as far as its
scanty limits will allow
My first introduction to the Labrador boy
was some years ago. A small party of us, hav-
ing chartered fifty-ton schooner, sailed across
the Gulf of st. Lawrence, and working our
way up the Straits of Belle Isle as far as
possible for floating ice, headed the vessel for
little fishing settlement on the coast of
Southern Labrador, called Leblanc.
Now, our French-Canadian skipper had new
er touched at this particular point, and as the
approach to the open road-stead is dangerous,
by reason of unmarked ledges and reefs, the
schooner ran alongside fishing boat at an
chor mile or two from land, and hailing its
two occupants-a middle-aged woman, with a
sad, sunbrowned face, and, boy of fourteen
or fifteen-asked to be piloted in.
go, Johnny" said the woman. "I'll be
bringing in the. boat directly. We've nigh
an odd one aboard now"-an "odd one"
as as | afterward learned, meaning boat load
respectively a half-fare and an unsatisfactory
catch.
So Johnny, who was an overgrown boy,
with a freckled face, a shock of light hair
and an expansive mouth, silently obeyed, and,
cambering over the side, he took the wheel
of an old coast pilot, and half an hour later
our schooner was safely anchored in sort
of open bay on as bleak and desolate looking
coast as can be found this side of WrangePs
Land, which lies within the frozen limits of
the Arctic circle.
1t was midsummer day. The sun shone
pleasantly down from an unclouded sky, and
the temperature was not unlike that of May
in our own New England yet from the YES
sells deck not tree, shrub or vestige of green
herbage could be seen.
few miles inland was purplish haze,
marking a belt-line of spruce forest, behind
which rose a range OF snow-capped hills. A
little back from the shore some forty or fifty
small, turf-covered houses, like those built
by the Icelanders, were irregularly scattered.
These, with an immense wooden shed, built
partly over roomy wharf or landing stage,
formed the settlement we had come to visit.
boys-in point of fact Though can hardly
realize it now | was once a boy myself. So
as soon as practicable began to cultivate the
acuuantance of johnny. who. rather shv at
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big red hand over his eyes-"had good learn
ing, and he said that La Brador was the
name of French whaling cap'n who discov
cred the country, and father knew about as
to go up to the house; 1t was a poor place,
but mother was likely back by this time, and
l would be hearty welcome"
Of course | should like to, but we fingered
moment by the landing stage first. Fish
were everywhere. In the air-as an odor-on
the rocks, on flakes and on hurdles, in every
variety of dress and undress A dozen or
more boats were being unloaded, the brawny
fishermen pitching their fares of Goldfish and
blue-backed pollock, half as large as them
selves, into tubs set in readiness for them
Crates of enormous HOLSTERS, for canning
factory, a few miles distant, stood at one
side, while close by them withered, weather
beaten old man in oilskins was counting his
morning catch of ten and 6fteenpound salmon
taken in drift net quite near our anchored
vessel. And a small barefooted boy, with
soiled but solemn features, sat on the extreme
edge, of the landing stage, catching sea trout,
weighing pound or two each, with a mack
eIel hook baited with Gods liver.
A mile or two distant lay dozen or more
great ice foes of fantastic shapes, from fifty
to hundred feet high, grounded in fifty and
sixty fathops Of water, that had drifted down
from the Northern seas. Under the lee of
the largest, though at safe distance, were
anchored small feet of fishing boats Every
now and then sound, like the distant rum
BILE and crash Of thunder, told of the down
fall of some lofty ice pinnacle, undermined
by the action of the sun and warm south
wind
''Now Johnny" I said
And making our way up from the shore
through piles of drying fish, outspread nets,
empty casks and upturned boats, we reached
the main street of Leblanc which is simply
a well-trodden footpath.
For what need of streets or roads is there
where both domestic animals and beasts of
burden are alike unknown, excepting as rep
resented by that intelligent and lin Labra-
dor) much-abused quadruped. the dog; where
there is no such thing as school house, church,
miles, and doctor was never known.
The house in which Johnny lived with his
mother was exactly like all the rest. 1t was
built of spruce timbers roughly squared with
an ak, "chnked" with moss, and sodded
from the ground to the ringpole with turf
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

brought from some little distance inland,
spaces being left for the door and two win
dows.
A great pile of spruce logs for the winters
fire wood stood outside, and eight OF ten
dogs, which in size and color seemed a sort
of cross between the Newfoundland and st.
Bernard, skunk away as we approachedj for
the Labrador dogs, despite their usefulness,
are so shamefuy beaten and abused that
they don't seem to understand the meaning
of kind words much less anything like pet
ting.
Johnny's mother was at home, and as neigh
Dor or stranger cannot enter the poorest
house IN Labrador without breaking bread,
| sat BY the open fireplace taking mental
notes while the tea was drawing and the
table being spread.
There were two rooms. In one was bed,
a looking glass and two chairs. This was
Johnny's mothers bed room. In the other,
beside the fireplace, was table, chair, a
spinning wheel and stool. Johnny slept
on cot mattress in one corner The walls
were roughly boarded and papered with
Halifax journals. And in midwinter the ther-
mometer indicates ten and fifteen degrees be-
low zero for weeks at time, the snow drifts
to the caves, and the straits are frozen out as
far as the eye can reach
Our lunch was simple--slices of very thin
fried salt pork, black rye bread and tea sweet
ened with molasses. This, with salt herring
and picked fish, constitutes the daily fare Of
Johnny and his mother for almost ten months
of the year.
But don't know when have been more
pleased at any simple incident than when, as
we drew our stools and chairs to the table,
Johnny in obedience to a sign from his moth
er, folded his toil-staned hands and quietly
asked a blessing, returning thanks at the
end of the meal in perfectly simple and
unembarrassed manner, and his mother told
me that nearly all the boys in the settle
ments were brought up to the same observ-
ance
"But there's no better than my johnny
nor none smarter" she said, proudly, as John
ny, with very red face, protested in an un-
dertone against the praise. "All last season,
after his father was lost off the cape" she
went on, unmindfu of Johnny's winks and
frowns, che fished for Whately, blow high or
blow low, and at the end of the season turn
ed in fish enough to pay for these three bar
rel of flour, some pork, tea and molasses, be-
side paying up nigh two pound on the old
debt, and leaving enough salt herring and
cod to last the winter through chopping and
hauling the wood with the dogs a matter of
ten mile and evenings learning his 'rithmetic
and writing in front of the fire.
And | very heartily agreed with the good
woman that Leblanc couldn't probably pro-
duce better smarter boy.
Then, on the following day, we took walk
together inland. First we crossed a little
plain, where, mixed in with the rocks and
sand, were bushels and bushels of Indian ar
row-heads.
What! hadn't l ever heard of the stand
ing ground? Why ever and ever 80 many
hundred years ago, the whole 'Merican coun-
try-where you live, sir-was inhabited by
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first, thawed out wonderfully during dinner.
And after that meal, while the professor was
hunting up his geological tools, the sports
man selecting some suitable salmon flies, and
the Amherst man getting his notebook ready, {,
Johnny and set ashore in the schooner $
boat, and once his foot was on his ma
tive heath, Johnny's tongue let itself fairly
loose.
Maybe I'd heard that Labrador was
farrin word, meaning that the land was easy
cultivated. II looked that way, now didn t
it?-an acre of ledge to a foot of sand soil,
where not so much as 'tato or turnp could
be growed, let alone the snow laying four and
six feet deep from October to well into June.
His father, which was drowned last year.
and here Johnny's voice broke as he passed
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folks who wasn't just like white people, nor
yet like the Indians that were all the time
lighting them BY and by the Indians, who
kept growing stronger than these Others, be-
gan, year after year, to drive them further
and further north, till they got them across
the st, Lawrence River and up into Labra-
dor And right here. sir, where we are, they
made stand, and they say the fight lasted
six days; but the Indians got the better Of
EN- and them that was left escaped up to .
the nor rard-some of EN- crossing the straits
over to Greenland, and it's from them that
the Esquimaux come"
Well, | had never heard anything of all this
before, and of course ! was Interested but as
we got further inland, i was still more inter-
ested in what | saw. For here was verdure
barren as was the coast line
Steep, rocky hillsides, where, out OF beds Of
manycolored moss, grew great, feathery ferns
and running vines. In places the ground was
pink with blossoms like the New England
"lambSill." This was the Labrador tea plant
and here, too, were blue herr-des, and
bunchberry blossoms by the square rod. Star
blue-bells and blue gentians, yellow orchids
and scarlet curew berres-why, | could hard
ly believe my own eyes that bleak-sided Lab
rador should in three short months make such
a display of blossoms, or my ears, when the
Amherst man, who is somewhat of botanist,
spoke of counting more than hundred and
twenty varieties of towering plants
Everywhere grew short, scrubby spruce
brush that made the steep hill climbing very
hard; but Johnny, though numbered by his
knit .woolen Jersey" and heavy fishing boots,
didn't seemed to mind it in the least.
Nothing seemed to escape his sharp eyes
the far-away sail in the straits which he con-
fdently asserted was a Greenland halbut-
catcher bound back to Gloucester; the i'm
mense iceberg to the northward, well over
on the Newfoundland shore; the Indian ines
copies" or stone signal heaps built on the
highest points around us; the wide tarn, and
the great flocks OF curlew and plover running
airily about its brink; and a hundred other
points of similar interest that would probably
have escaped my own eye.
| don't know who enjoyed it the more
myself or Johnny; but / am inclined to he
lieve that he did. For, generally speaking,
the summer season in Labrador is too short
for holidays, and excepting on Sunday the
Labrador boy knows little or nothing about
pleasuring. As soon he is big enough to
handle an oar or pull line he goes in the
boats, which leave the shore with the first
ray of daylight. Each boat carries two per
sons, and, except they are driven in by a gale,
they must fish until sundown, unless the fish
ing is SO good that they get a fare by mid
day. A bit of salt pork and fresh fish boiled
together on fire built on the open ballast
rock, and washed down with unsweetened tea.
comprises the midday meal-eaten, | NAV
add, from personal observation, without go
ing through the ceremony of using plate, knife
or fork.
And so it is that the Labrador boys on
portunities of recreation are very limited. The
streams and lakes swarm with trout but he