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the west of England, Devon, and Somerset. Old colonial customs 

 and words all had their origin in Devon, &c. All lakes are ponds, 

 and grouse are partridge, simply because there were no lakes or 

 grouse in Devon. 



Breaching, fish rising on the top of the water. 



Brews, a dish made of soaked biscuit, fish, &c. ; very good mess (cp. Beaumont 



and Fletcher, " What an ocean of brews shall I swim in "). 

 Cruising, paying visits. A lady sent her servant to a friend, asking her would 



she like to pay some calls with her in the afternoon. Servant man — "The 



Missus wants to know if you will go cruising with her this afternoon." 

 Curry, the fish offal. 



Douse, to put out a light (" Douse the glib," put out the lantern — Hamlet.) 

 Dout the fire, to put out (see Shakespeare). 



Drake, a wooded narrow valley (probably same as the old English word drock). 

 Drung, a narrow lane. 



Flankers, sparks from a wood fire coming out of the chimney. 

 Frore and froke, for frozen. ("The parching air burns frore " — Milton.) 

 Heft, to feel the weight of anything. Heft it, that is, see how heavy it is. 

 Linhay, a lean-to attached to the main building ; pronounced by the natives 



linney. Well-known English word used in " Lorna Doone." 

 Logy, heavy, dull. Thus, a logy day. 

 Moidered, muddled, bothered. An old English expression. 

 Atouch, to play the truant from school. 

 Scat of snow, just a light fall. 

 " Scattered fish " means a small catch. 



Seal : an old seal is a Doter; a two-year-old one, a Bedlamer. 

 Spurt, a run of fish. 

 Starrigans, small decayed sticks of trees ; boughs of burnt fir-trees ; a word of 



contempt. A mean building of the Reformed Church of England in one 



out-harbour was always known as the Starriga?i Church. 

 Stog : to stag a. house is to stuff moss, &c., between the posts. 

 Strouters, piling for a wharf. 

 Swoil is a seal. The seal fishery is always spoken of as the Spring of such 



a year. 

 Yaffle, an armful of fish. 

 Yary, pronounced yarry ; means a careful, early-rising man. From the old 



English. (Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night" — "Be yare in thy preparations.") 



The Game Laws of Newfoundland 

 Provide that — 



No person . . . shall pursue with intent to kill any caribou 

 from the ist day of February to the 31st day of July, or from the 

 ist day of October to the 20th October, in any year. And no 

 person shall . . . kill or take more than two stag and one doe 

 caribou in any one year. 



No person is allowed to hunt or kill caribou within specified 

 limits of either side of the railway track from Grand Lake to Goose 

 Brook, these limits being defined by gazetted proclamation. 



