A LABRADOR SPRING 



at their duties. These bells, which were 

 11 jangled, out of tune and harsh," so inter- 

 fered at times with my observation of small 

 birds, whose notes I was trying to detect, that 

 I was often tempted to say " Silence that 

 dreadful bell: it frights the isle from her 

 propriety." 



As the village is a village of fishermen, it is 

 appropriate that St. Peter should be its patron 

 saint, and that a large tin fish perforated with 

 the name of St. Pierre should swim as a weather- 

 vane on a mast in the church yard, and that 

 St. Peter's cock, very fat and of considerable 

 height, should act as a vane on a large cross at 

 the end of the town. Still more appropriate 

 is the painting over the altar in the church of 

 the miraculous draught of fishes, where the 

 boats are such as might be used at the present 

 day on this stormy coast, and the details of 

 pointed sterns and thole-pins have a familiar 

 look. The painting, a copy of one by Tissot, 

 is the work of a self-taught native, and is 

 remarkably well done in soft and harmonious 

 colours. Doubtless many a sturdy worshipper, 

 while his lips moved in prayer as he counted his 

 beads, has envied the success of this draught, 



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