IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



swinging the hea\y timbers back to place, 

 raising and staying them! Well worthy 

 the labour and the wetting to see the dumb 

 amazement of les Messieurs when the jest 

 smote upon their eyes! So thought the in- 

 corrigible boy of seventy-odd who con- 

 structed the little farce out of his young 

 heart's abounding humour and goodwill — 

 smoother of rough places on the hard road 

 of life — builder of ways for others — 

 Pommereau, pontifex. 



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