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LABBADOR 



how pitiful is the living of a hook-and-line man in a poor 

 year. Both men, A. B. and C. D., are well known to me 

 as capable and industrious. One cannot wonder that they 

 may be in perpetual debt to the merchant. 



A. B. is a "handy man"; his wife is dead and he has 

 eight children, most of whom are young. His financial 

 year may be described in informal bookkeeping thus: 



A. B. had no potatoes for seed, no cabbage seed; no 

 money for powder, shot, caps, crockery, kerosene, matches, 

 boots, oilskins, clothing, house repairs, tools, bedclothes, 

 etc. ; no luxuries, no doctor's fees, no church expenses. 



C. D. has a wife, two small sons, and three small daughters, 

 owns no nets, shared this year in two salmon-nets with an- 

 other man. His account for the year stands : 



