Labrador Days

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Author: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell ISBN: 9781465531520
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
ISBN: 9781465531520
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
THERE’S TROUBLE ON THE SEA The ice in the big bay had broken up suddenly that year in the latter part of March before a tremendous ocean swell heaving in beneath it. The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summer fishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on the landwash. The dog-teams usually haul all this out at a stretch gallop over the glare ice which overlies in April the snow-covered surface of winter. For weeks, heavy pack ice, driven to and fro with the tides, but ever held in the bay with the onshore winds, had prevented the small boats’ freighting more than their families and the merest necessities to the summer stations. So it came to pass that long after the usual time, indeed after the incoming shoals of fish were surely expected, John Mitchell’s firewood still lay on the bank, some twenty miles up the bay. When at last a spell of warm and offshore winds had driven the ice mostly clear, John announced to his eager lads that “come Monday, if the wind held westerly,” he would go up the bay for a load. What a clamour ensued, for every one wanted to be one of the crew to go to the winter home. The lads, like ducklings, “fair loved the water”; and though John needed Jim, and was quite glad to have Tom, now of the important age of fourteen years, he did his best, well seconded by the wise old grandmOther, to persuade Neddie, aged twelve, and Willie, aged ten, to stay behind. “You be too small, Ned, yet awhile. Next year perhaps father will take you,” was the old lady’s first argument. ‘“Twill be cold in t’ boat, boy, and you’ll perish altogether
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THERE’S TROUBLE ON THE SEA The ice in the big bay had broken up suddenly that year in the latter part of March before a tremendous ocean swell heaving in beneath it. The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summer fishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on the landwash. The dog-teams usually haul all this out at a stretch gallop over the glare ice which overlies in April the snow-covered surface of winter. For weeks, heavy pack ice, driven to and fro with the tides, but ever held in the bay with the onshore winds, had prevented the small boats’ freighting more than their families and the merest necessities to the summer stations. So it came to pass that long after the usual time, indeed after the incoming shoals of fish were surely expected, John Mitchell’s firewood still lay on the bank, some twenty miles up the bay. When at last a spell of warm and offshore winds had driven the ice mostly clear, John announced to his eager lads that “come Monday, if the wind held westerly,” he would go up the bay for a load. What a clamour ensued, for every one wanted to be one of the crew to go to the winter home. The lads, like ducklings, “fair loved the water”; and though John needed Jim, and was quite glad to have Tom, now of the important age of fourteen years, he did his best, well seconded by the wise old grandmOther, to persuade Neddie, aged twelve, and Willie, aged ten, to stay behind. “You be too small, Ned, yet awhile. Next year perhaps father will take you,” was the old lady’s first argument. ‘“Twill be cold in t’ boat, boy, and you’ll perish altogether

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