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Christmas treat, but on every such occasion I would willingly have given either 

 of these luxuries for half its weight of the regulation pemmican.* 1 



Stef ansson caps it all by writing : 



Pemmican . . . has been found to continue tasting good to those with good appe- 

 tites, even when no food but pemmican has been used for weeks on end. . . . 

 So it is about pemmican as the Scots are said to remark about whisky — there is 

 no bad pemmican, but some are better than others. 8 * 



That this statement applies to a man with his heart in his work 

 rather than to one with play in his heart is obvious, but which man 

 of the two converted our "wide-open spaces" into our modern economic 

 scene ? 



n Priestley, Antarctic adventure, p. 344. 

 M Stefansson, "Pemmican," p. 251. 



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