Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-11-21
PART ONE
CHAPTER !.
On the Labrador.

fcause | amt ready.
II | wrote this yarn myself, I'd make
1t good and red from tip to tip, claws
out. teeth bare, fur crawling with emo
lions 1t wouldn't be dull. no. or evil
dence.
But then it's to please you. and
that's what I'm for.
So proceeds to stroke the fur
smooth. lay the paws down soft. fold
mp the smile. and purr A sort of
kruthfulness steals over me. Coin to
be dun. too.
No. l dunno how to begin. II this
yarn was rope, I'd coil 1t down be-
fore began to pay out. You lays the
end. SO. and flemish down, ring by ring
until the bight's coiled, smooth, ready
to fake off as 1t runs. / delayed a
fynching once to do just that. and re-
1ieve the patients mind 1t all went
of so WE'LL
When we kids were good, mother
tshe 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
tnillionaires in grace and pretty well
1xeG In Nova Scotia. Then she's found
put, secretly married among the goats.
E4er names scratched out of the fam
Fly Bible, with a strong hint to the
lord to scratch her entry from the
Book of Life. She's married sailor
knan, before the mast, Liveyere from
khe Labrador, man without dollar,
suspected of being Episcopalian.
In them days the Labrador ain't
Faid out exactly to suit mother. She's,
used to luxpry--coal In the lean-to.
Naties In thu cellar, cows in the barn,
BARTER store round the corner, mails,
Ehurch, school, and a Jail right handy,
no che can enjoy the ungodly getting
Df their just deserts. But in our time
the Labrador was just Gods country,
all rocks, Ice, and sea, to put the fear
fnto proud hearts-no need OF each.
ssrs. 1t kills of the weaklings-no
need OF doctors. A school to raise
snep--no need Of preachers. The law
was 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
Nlling 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
che family, the team of seven husky
dogs. and even a cord or two of fire
wood We kids used to play at New
Enlanders up in the hold. when the
winter storms were tearing the tops
on the hills, and the Eskimo devil
howled blue shrieks outside. The hus-
2kies makes wolf songs all about the
11ewness of fish, and we'd hear mother
give father piece of her mind. That's
saboat the first l remember. but all
what mother thought about poor ia.
ssn6r took years and years to say.
1 used to be kind of sorry for father
You see he worked the bones tire ugh
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 Ray.
but father worked hardest and he
owed most, hundreds and hundreds OF
skins. The company trusted him.
There wasn't a man on the coast
more trusted than ne was, with moth.
er to feed, and six kids, besides seven
huskies, and fathers aunt, Thessa-
SoniEa, widow with four ch:lcren
and q sumor. living down to Last
Hope beyond the Rocks
There was secrets about father. and
IL mother ever found outi You see,
he looked like white man, curly
yaller hair same as me, and he was
Fearful strong. But in his inside
don't ever tell!-he was partly small
boy same's me, and the other half of
hlm-don't ever let on!-was noun.
taineer injun. l seen his three broth
ers. the finest fellers you ever-yes
Scotch halfbreeds--and mother never
KNEW
IhSr's me on fathers knee, with
any nose in his buckskin shirt, and
even TO this day the wood smoke In
camp brings back the wuT. whereas
summers his boots smelt ffshy. What
happened first or afterwards IS all
mixed up, but there's the smoke smell
and sister Maggie lying in the bunk
all white and froze.
There's fish smell, and Polly whC
1sed 70 wallop me with a slipper
lying white and froze &ud vet
Fznew she couldn't get froze In sup;
mar.
Then there's smoke smell, aud BIZ