A LABRADOR SPRING 
than any Sargeant will bee to arrest a man for 
debt.” 
The temperature of this Labrador spring as 
revealed by my thermometer was rather cool, 
for, as Whittier says: 
“The Gulf, midsummer, feels the chill blockade 
Of icebergs stranded at its northern gate.” 
It averaged during the last part of May and 
the first part of June about 43° Far., morning 
and night, and 50° at midday in the shade. 
At night the thermometer generally went down 
to 32° During the last part of our stay in 
June the average was 46°, morning and night, 
and 51° in the middle of the day. The 
highest temperature was 62° at mid-day on 
June toth. Unfortunately, like all good ex- 
plorers, I broke my thermometer on June 17th, 
so that I had no record for the last six days 
of our stay. 
Although it was often bitterly cold in the 
wind and out of the sun, it was often delight- 
fully warm when these conditions were re- 
versed, and a complete sun-bath was _ sur- 
prisingly free from any sensations of chilliness, 
in fact “‘ toasty warm ”’ even in the neighbour- 
hood of a snowbank which, by reflection, in- 
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