The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-11-08
PART ONE
ChePT r !.
On the Labrador.

DICIuIcd on M. Jesse Snuh-
Don't you write anything down yet.
cause Amt ready.
=, II wrote this yarn myself. I'd make
Il good and red from tip TO tip. claws
out. teeth bare, fur crawling with emo
lions. II wouldn't be dull. no. or evil
dence
But then It's to please you. and
that's what I'm for.
So I proceeds to stroke the fur
smooth, lay the paws down soft. fold
up the smile. and purr. A sort Of
truthfulness steals over me. Coin TO
be dun. too
No. dunno how to begin. II this
yarn was a rope. I'd coil II down be-
fore began to pay out. You lays the
end. so. and flemish down, ring by ring
until the bights coiled. smooth. ready
to fake of as II runs. ! delayed a
lieve the patients mind. II all went
of 30 well!
When we kids were good, mother
she used to own we came OF pedigree
stock; but when we're bad, seems we
took after father. You see mothers
folk was the elect. sort OF born saved.
They allowed there'd be room in
Heaven for one hundred and forty-four
thousand Just persons. mostly from
Nova Scotia, but when they took to
sorting the neighbors. they'd get ex.
elusive.
Anyway, mothers folk as tribe. is
nillionaires in grace and pretty well
nxed In Nova Scotia. Then she's found
out, secretly married among the goats
Her names scratched out of the fam
lily Bible, with strong hint to the
Lord to scratch her entry from the
Book Of Life. She's married a sailor
man. before the mast, a Liveyere from
the Labrador, man without dollar.
suspected of being Episcopalian.
In them days the Labrador amt
laid out exactly to suit mother. She's
used to luxrry--coal in the, lean-to.
taties In tn. cellar, cows in the barn.
barter store round the corner, mails.
church. school, and Jail right handy,
90 she can enjoy the ungodly getting
OF their Just deserts. But in our time
tho Labrador was just Gods country,
all rocks, Ice, and sea. to put the fear
into proud hearts-no need OF leach.
ers. II kills of the weaklings-no
need OF doctors. A school to raise
nep--no need OF preachers. The law
wac work or starve"-no place for
lawyers. It's police, and court, and
hangman all complete, fire and hail.
snow and vapors., wind and storm full
filling His word.
Fathers home was an overturned
schooner, turfed in, and he was surely
proud OF having bigger place than
any other Liveyere on the coast There
was the hold overhead for slowing
winter fish, and room downstairs for
the family. the team of seven husky
joge, and even cord or two OF fire.
wood We kids used to play at New.
fnlanders up in the hold when the
winter storms were tearing the tops
of the hills, and the Eskimo devil
>howled blue shrieks outside. The bus.
kies makes wolf songs all about the
fewness OF fish. and we'd hear mother
give father piece OF her mind. That's
about the first remember, but all
what mother thought about poor ia
Their took years ard years to say.
used 10 be kind OF sorry for father.
You see he worked the bones through
his hide. Turing all winter and FISH.
ing summers. and what he earned he'd
get in truck from the company. All
us Liyeyeres owed to the Hudson Pay.
but father worked hardest and he
owed most, hundreds and hundreds o.
skins The company trusted him.
There vasn't man on the coast
more trusted than be was. with moth.
er 70 feed, and six kids. besidez seven
hCtkiss. and fathers aunt, yThegsa.
lOn.Ea, a widow with four chlcrep
ana tunor, living down TO Last
Hope bsyo5d the Rocks
There wa secrets sbout father. and
II mother ever found out. You see.
he looksd like white man. curly
yslIer hair tsrse an me. and ne xss
fearful strong. But IL bis irstde--
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boy tsns's ne. and the other bali os
him do1't ever - o..--pst p5oup
tsinssr ip!pn. ! fssD tis three trotb-
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