A LABRADOR SPRING 



amount of reasoning power, while the struggle 

 ending in breaking away would be the natural 

 and instinctive one. 



Of shooting seals with a rifle he had much to 

 tell us, and of the pleasures of this pursuit 

 conducted by lying down covered with a sack 

 on a reef, and acting and grunting hoarsely 

 like the animal; and he showed us some 

 beautiful skins both of the bay seal and of the 

 horse-head. Between the tenth of June and the 

 tenth of July he catches seals in nets, and one 

 hundred and eighty pelts were the result of 

 his work the year before. 



Of his dogs he spoke with great affection, 

 and they massive brutes, some Eskimo, 

 some half Newfoundland fully reciprocated 

 it. To one who is familiar with the cruel way 

 in which many of the Eskimo dogs are treated 

 on the eastern Labrador coast, it was a pleasure 

 to see the different treatment accorded them 

 here. Unfortunately an epidemic among the 

 dogs had spread like wild -fire along the coast 

 the winter before, and many of the most 

 valued animals were dead, some within the 

 space of a day after the first seizure. 



My New England Cartwright had much to 



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