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Frenchies to catch them. One summer I went lobster 

 catchin' along by de Grey Islands, and we done pretty poor 

 till the spearin' came on." 



"How do you spear lobsters?" I remarked, for this 

 method of taking the crustacean was new to me. 



" Well, 'long 'bout the month of August the lobsters cast 

 their shells, and is sort o' soft and fleshy 'bout the back so's 

 ye can drive a spear into 'un. We used to go out early in 

 the day 'long the coast, to where there was caves with the 

 sea washin' up into them. Round about the mouth of these 

 caves we'd cast half a boatload of cod's insides or rotten 

 herrings, always being careful to heave the bait where we 

 cud see clean bottom. Then we lay by fer half-an-hour, 

 an' the fun 'ud begin soon as the tide was sufficient ebb to 

 reach bottom with our long spears. Great sport it was, too, 

 and none too easy stickin' them lobsters as they grabbed 

 the pieces of fish and made off. I liked that kind of fishing 

 fine, and made a good pack of money at it too, fer we'd get 

 as many as fifty to a hundred in a morning sometimes. 

 Anyhow, those Frenchies is all right if you leave 'em alone, 

 an' I know that if they was Newfun'lan' Englishmen they 

 wouldn't turn out after they made the place too." 



During the next few days " we reeved aroun' considerable " 

 (as Saunders graphically expressed it), seeing a fair number 

 of does and two big stags, both of which showed up in the 

 timber for a minute, and disappeared as soon as I ran to 

 head them. As there was now every sign that the larger 

 deer had commenced to travel, I moved the camp ten miles 

 over the two ridges, and descended into the valley by Millais's 

 Lake, where I had settled to watch the open barrens at the 

 east end. 



I have already stated this barren forms a connecting 



