A LABRADOR SPRING 
amount of reasoning power, while the struggle 
ending in breaking away would be the natural 
and instinctive one. 
Of shooting seals with a rifle he had much to 
tell us, and of the pleasures of this pursuit 
conducted by lying down covered with a sack 
on a reef, and acting and grunting hoarsely 
like the animal; and he showed us some 
beautiful skins both of the bay seal and of the 
horse-head. Between the tenth of June and the 
tenth of July he catches seals in nets, and one 
hundred and eighty pelts were the result of 
his work the year before. 
Of his dogs he spoke with great affection, 
and they—massive brutes, some Eskimo, 
some half Newfoundland — fully reciprocated 
it. To one who is familiar with the cruel way 
in which many of the Eskimo dogs are treated 
on the eastern Labrador coast, it was a pleasure 
to see the different treatment accorded them 
here. Unfortunately an epidemic among the 
dogs had spread like wild-fire along the coast 
the winter before, and many of the most 
valued animals were dead, some within the 
space of a day after the first seizure. 
My New England Cartwright had much to 
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