THREE MODERN CARTWRIGHTS 



at the bondage of the trade-unions. Finally 

 the spirit moved him to visit in a brief vacation 

 the home of his ancestors in Quebec, and while 

 there he stumbled on the mail steamer about 

 to leave for the Labrador Coast. He took 

 passage, intending to return by the same boat, 

 but at Seven Islands he kindly offered to help 

 out for a few days in painting the church, 

 taking the place of a painter who had fallen ill. 

 This was three years ago and he has been the 

 ecclesiastical painter along the coast ever since, 

 kept there partly by the entreaties of the 

 priests, but chiefly, he admitted, by his enjoy- 

 ment of the independence of the life, and the 

 fact that he was his own master and not subject 

 to walking delegates. He could work over 

 time to his heart's content, and do his very 

 best without fear of disparaging another. He 

 was particularly enthusiastic about the health- 

 fulness of the climate, and, like Cartwright of 

 old, declared that, although the thermometer 

 went many degrees below zero in the winter, 

 he never felt chilly as at home. 



His plans for the future were certainly 

 original and were all carefully arranged. Al- 

 though he thoroughly enjoyed his work and the 



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