312 LABRADOR 
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. Huis financial 
year may be described in informal bookkeeping thus:— 
INCOME EXPENSES 
Caught on hook and line, Nails, oakum, paint, 
30 qtl. of fish at $3.20 $96.00 rope, etc. .°. <>.) pee 
Salmon, none; easterly Hooks andline . . . 2.50 
seas destroyed nets 16 bbls. flour (cheapest 
Oilfrom codfish, balanced possible) = >... 15) Game 
against salt for fish 5 bags hard bread . . 19.00 
Winter work, logging for 50 gal. molasses. . . 22.50 
MMU sp ee ay ee 1 ey 4400) A 21b. cheapest tea ae 4.80 
$140.00 | 10 lb. oleomargarine . 2.00 
Balance against A. B. 10.80 | 1 bbl. salt pork . . 16.00 
$150.80 $150.80 
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 awife, 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 :— 
