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rule, are clean and tidily arranged, and in some villages a 
profane word is scarcely ever heard. The hospitality of 
the fisher folk is proverbial, and their charity, at times 
when a boat is wrecked, and the bread-winner ofa family is 
drowned, is active and unbounded. In not a few of our 
fishing villages there may be seen in the houses of different 
families little boarders who have found a home with the 
other children of the place, their fathers having gone down 
in the waves on the occasion of a storm overtaking the 
fishing fleet and wrecking some of the boats. There is 
much that is heroic in these communities, and deeds of 
charity have many a time been done, which had they been 
blazoned by the press, would have excited the unbounded 
admiration of the people. 
