Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-10-01
PART ONE
CHAPTER l.
On the Labrador.


smooth. lay the paws down soft. fold
Gp the smile. and purr. A sort OF
truthfulness steals over me. Coin to
be dull. too.
No. dunno how to begin. n this
Iarn was a rope. ls1 coil 1t down be
fore began 20 pay out. You lays the
end, so. ard flemish down, ring by ring
dntil the bigbt'A coiled, smooth. ready
to fake of az I. runs. / delayed a
lynching once 20 do just that, and re-
iieve the patients mind. It all went
of so well!
When we Kids were good, rothe,
she used TO oWn we came os pedigree
stock; but when we're bad, seems we
took after father. You see mothers
folk was the ulect. sort of born saved
They allowed there'd be room in
Heaven for one hundred and forty.four
'hous; nd just persons, mostly from
Nova Scotia. but when they took to
sorting the nelghbors. they'd get ex-
elusive
Anyway. mothers folk as a tribe. Ia
clillionai'sa I'm grace and pretty well
liked IN Nova Scotia. Then she's found
nut. SECRETLY married among the goats
Her names scratched out OF the fam
lily Bible. with strong hint To the
Lord 10 scratch her entry from the
Book Of Life. She's married a sailor
man. before the mast, Liveyere from
the Labrador. a man without a dollar.
suspected Of being Episcopalian.
10 them days the Labrador amt
lald out exactly to suit mother. She's
used to luxury--coal In the lean-to.
iaties in the cellar. cows In the barn.
barter store round the corner. mails,
church. school. and Jail right handy.
30 she can enjoy the ungodly getting
Of their just deserts. But In our time
the Labrador was just Gods country,
pll rocks, Ice. and sea. to put the fear
into proud hearts--no need OF each
eis. II kills on the weakllngs--no
eeed of doctors. A school to raise
ren-no need OF preachers. The law
Wis work or starve"--no place for
lawyers. IT'S police. and court, and
hangman all complete, fire and hail
filling His word.
Fathers home was an overturned
schooner. turfed In, and he was surely
proud OF a~ing a bigger place than
amy other Liteyere on III coast There
was the hold overhead for slowing
winter Ash, and room downstairs for
abe family, the team Of seven husky
nd
wood We kids used to play at New
f'nlanders up In the hold. when the
winter storms were tearing the tops
on the nils. and the Eskimo devil
howled blue ahrieks outside The hus-
kies makes wolf songs all about the
fewness Of Ash. and we'd hear mother
give father q piece of her mind. That's
about the nnst ] remember. but all
what mother thought about poor ia.
ther took years and years to say.
! used To be kind of sorry for father.
lou zee he worked the bones thrt ugh
his bide. Turing all winter and fish.
ting summers, and what he earned he'd
get IA truck from the company All
us IdVeyeres owed to the Hudson Bay
bAA AdAhNt Mbihtu uhEutSA anu ne
owed most. hundreds and hundreds OF
sk'ns. The company trusted him.
There wasn't man on the coast
more trusted than he was. with moth.
or to feed. and six kids. besides seven
baskies and fathers aunt, Thessa-
Ionika, a widow with four chilcren
and tumor. living down TO Last
Hope beyond the Rocks
There was secrets about father and
II mother ever found OUT You see,
he looked like white man. curly
yaller hair same as me. and ne was
fearful strong. ut in his iuslde-
don't ever tell!-he was partly small
hoy same's me, and the other haif OF
him-dont ever let onl-was noun.
taineer injun. seen his three broth
ers, the finest fellers you ever---yes,
Scotch half-hfeeds--and mother never
knew
Thar's mt on fathers knee. with
my nose ". his buckshin shirt. and
oven to this day the wood smoke in