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" King" T ak es a Leal )By J a me... Phillip'

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M UCH of the mail coming to this magazine from non natives aswell as from Newfoundlanders at home and abroad. refers in one

way or another to some place or places we have featured.

It is natural for a person born. say, in Noggin Cove, Notre Dame Bay(July Atlantic Guardian), now living away from home, to be pleasedto see a picture and story on that place in the magazine. But it is sur ­prising how many other people are interested in reading about " the littleplaces" around our coastline.

To a large extent, no doubt, the interest centers around the namesof the little places and the origin of those names. How, for example,did Noggin Cove get its name? To quote the author of the Guardianarticle:

"A noggin, a butter-tub like container used as a platter in pioneer dayswas found on a rock near the sea shore by an exploring trapper. andfrom that day the little tree-clad nook of Notre Dame Bay has beenknown as Noggin Cove, "

In this issue we show pictures of places on the Burin Peninsula whosenames challenge the imagination-Bay L 'Argent, Spanish Room, Lord'sCove, Loon Bay, among others, Once hearing such place-names, andparticularly if you can spot them on the map, you want to see them andfind out more about them,

It is not too difficult to find an explanation, right or wrong, for theorigin of such well-known Newfoundland place-names as Heart's Con­tent, Seldom Come-By, Come-By-Chance, or Pushthrough. But someinteresting research would be necessary to learn why St. Jones WithoutJoe Batt 's Arm. Witless Bav-s-eo name ani)' a Iew-s-came by such names.

For our own part. we 'll never grow weary of learning about "thelittle places " of Newfoundland-and passing on what we have learnedand seen to what we have long been satisfied is a wide and appreciativeaudience scattered throughout the big and far-away places,

See Page 15 for the first in a new series of Picture Albums

featuring some of the "Little Places" of Newfoundland.

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.....1. John's ~ To her ill dreams I gn'filh 100e 1"11 ne'er define,

"'ht'n Summer docs her gihs bestowTo deck t hat ' to wn of urine.'

In nowrillg" Park where bowers g-reell

Afford their shaded case,

The hasking "Caribou" is seen

To catch t he sun uucr's breezeT he cobbled leng th of w at e r Street

\\'h e re palsied wheels go hy..-\ lId drown the heal of horses' feel

A nd hush the carters ' cry.T he alley-ways thai seaward reach,

And echo mongers' hails,

And beckon r'orc the pebbled beach

And point the drying sails.An d rising ra~s of moon that still

T he town in August sun.

" ' hen from its nest on Signal H illBoo m s out the midday gun

T he wharves where douds of seagullsflock

And plutmuet for their fare,

And wi ng their way t'ord o ld C hai nRo ck ,

To seek their sene I lair.

see the sprightly ,enl;1II1 1I10de" ~f~· town" in summer dons

And drift again down Tops'l Road­.-\ 11 <1 uuo old Sf. John's.

SI. John's! To her ill dreams I go

'fith love I'll ne 'er define,

when winter wields her dri,·ing snow

To deck that "town of mine."

In Howril1J{ Park where whitened drifts'Round naked timber.. spread.

I'he mantled "Caribou" IIpliflsH er proud , defia nl head .

1·11 1'11 ' ' ''a ler SIr-ee l, ;1 frozen Ira(')...

" 'her e irv runners sillg,In answer to t he slarliTlg "rrack"

T he hells of winter rillg.

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Forebodance of the seas..\ s streets of noontimc mutelv hear

Their bleak December (:0;11,

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Fro m out t hc C;IIIIIOIl'S th ro a t

\ ho \'c the wharves the scagul ls shriekT he fervor of t heir <juest,

And o'er the x arrows will~ 10 seek

The sheller of the nest .

As Irom its murky ~rc)" abodeThe sleepy fog-horn )"awns­drtft again down Top.."l Road­

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Ellis GreellIlollore~l

Ily St. If: X.ELLIS GREEN. 62 - year - old

New Waterford mine em­ployee. who pioneered in adult edu­cation activities in the communitywas honored on July 6 this yearwith the Degree of Master of Arts(Honoris Causae) by St . F. X .University . Mr. Green , who is aveteran leader in the labor move­ment. is a native of Newfoundlandbut has lived in New \Vaterfordmore than 30 years .

The veteran secretary of No. 12Local Union who ended his formaleducation in the village school ofhis native Hanr 's Harbor. Nfld ..was the first New Waterford resi­dent ever accorded an Honorary De ­gree by SI. F. X.

Commenting on his inclusion inthe list of those to be honored bySI. F. X . with an honorary degree .Mr. Green said that he felt thatthere were many. both living anddead . from this community whohad served the labor and co-oper­ative movements better than he hadand that it had been his privilegeto work and follow many of these .In being singled out to receive theaward Mr. Green said that he feltit as a great honor not only forhimself but for the community andhe felt that in accepting it he wasaccepting an honor conferred onNew Waterford for its manyachievements in the field of adulteducation .

Ellis Green was born in Hant'sHarbor. Newfoundland. in 1891.

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ELLIS GREE:\"

the son of Mr. and Mrs. John T .Green . He received his educationin the village school there and lefthis native community as a youngman of 23. He settled permanentlyin New Waterford in I 919 afterworking in several other Cape Bre­ton centres in the booming coal in­dustry of the period. At No. 12Colliery here . Mr. Green filled var ­ious duties on the surface and formany years has held the position ofcompressor man at the big produc­ing colliery where he has been con­tinuously employed since settlinghere.

Member of surface com millet formany years. Mr. Green was electedsecretary of No. 12 Local. U.M.\V .. in 1935 and has held that postalmost continuously since then. Mr.Green has represented his local atInternational U.M.W. conventionsand many other labor gatherings

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Along with the late Ra nnie J .MacDonald. Mr. Green helped or­ganize one of th e first adult educa­tion study clubs here back in the' 30 's and saw this movement catchon to flow er into the big , success­ful New Waterford Co-op andCredit Union of today.

Mr. Green is now President ofNew Waterford Credit Union .assistant secretary and member ofthe Board of New \V aterford Co­op. and this year was a delegate toInternational Credit Union Con­vention in Atlantic City. New Je r­sey. Co-operative and credit u nio nsof today are a fa r cry from theearly ones which he saw formed indepression years. One of M r.Green's earliest adventures in eo-op­eration was as a volunteer door-to­door salesman for the farm productsof Cape Breton fa rmers which. shutout from other ma rkets, found onein this comm unity by co-operativemarketing procedures assisted bylocal friends of the movement.

Leadership in adult education ac­tivities and labor union projectshasn 't detracted from other com­munity activities of this active com­munity worker who is an elder ofCalvin United Church. a formermember of the Board of New \Vat­erford Hospital. wartime worker inpatriotic and charity drives and afamily man who counts a son . twodau ghters and a number of grand­children. H e and Mrs. Green andtheir family share in congratulation!from the whole community on thesignal recognition accorded him bySt. Francis Xavier University onJuly 6 . 195 l, -.')' (I u t')' Pm! Hrront

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"King"Takes

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JAMES PHILLIPS '\'\

"K ING." the Newfoundlandsalmon. was still curious as

he lazed idly in the cool green waterJ few miles outside of Traver'sRiver in Bonavista Bay. Somethingin the mixture of .Iune-fresh waterfrom the river and the hard greenof the salt Atlantic made him sus­picious. He was slightly scarredon his back and one front fin wassore from the man- made netthrough which he had only justfought his way.

He remembered now quite vivid­ly how dazzling the net had ap­peared at first. with the sun shin­ing down through the deep water.making each mesh in the net likea silvery live creature of the deep.This had aroused his sporting in­stinct-an opening showed and hedived with one swish of his pow­erful tail. This proved his undo­ing. The first sense of danger hadpassed now that the sun had gonedown and. swimming madly 'andmadly around looking for an open-

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ing , in one violent plunge he surgedthrough the thing that held himprisoner.

Previous years he had taken histime and waited before leaving thegood home of the North Atlantic.but there it was again-the urgeto go. Diving to the sandy bottomof the river. "King" rolled overand over to scrape off the last ofthe sea lice that were left clingingto him . for he knew the drain theywould take of his strength duringhis arduous journey up river.

The next day . after a short runout to the ocean. he gathered en­ergy that pledged him to that deathdefying struggle which would killoff many of his kind ; he knew hewould find them lifeless and deadduring his annual journey up river.

With that feeling of unrest hewas now lying with fins spreadwide against the rushing tide whichhe knew would be his constant en­emy.

He was off with a mad dash -

gaily swimming through the deepclear pools and then into whiterushing water as it flowed swiftlythrough narrow channels.

Ahead upstream he rememberedhow last year he had much diffi­culty in leaping the falls: now ayear older and with that experiencebehind him he knew he would makeit. It was characteristic of him (0

make a few practice leaps as hewent along ; going faster and fasterto gain momentum for the six footjump. Straight ahead he saw thewhite water falling down to turninto a cauldron of boiling whitefoam. With a frantic swerve (0

miss a jagged crag. he sailed throughthe air up. up and over into thesteady water.

Suddenly. after miles of unevent­ful travel he heard a terrible roar.slightly reminiscent of the sea.Darting quickly under a ledge snug­ly bidden in a deep pool. he wait­ed. quivering with the excitementof the unknown danger that threat­ened him. Then tumbling andcrashi ng all around him came logsthundering against his refuge. Itseemed ages to "King" when helooked overhead and noticed thelogs were coming singly. Knowinghe could evade them now. like atorpedo he shot to the surface.startled to see men carrying andpushing logs from a big boom thatwas anchored at the edge of a pondclose to the open river.

The following days King spentin swimming slowly around insearch of food. which was in abun­dance due to the high water in thepond, A favorite place of his wasin a gully north of the river whereeverything was peaceful and serene.

It

Some Say That ..the King Salmon die after

spawning but the American Fish& \\'ildlife Service have madeexperiments and they know thatthe King Salmon does not diehut rei urns 10 the stream of hishinh to "pawn over and overagain. Thev travel thousands of

mile" and Ii\C for years.

there an' Illany species ofsalmon. such as Dogs, Hurnpies,Reds. SiI\er" and Cohoes, butthere appear.. 10 he only onekind of salmon in Xewfound­

land and they an' King salmon.

. • some Canadian and Ameri­can sportsmen arc of the opin­ion that a salmon leaps out ofthe water only 10 shake off thesea lice from hi.. bodv. I doubtthis as I have seen salmon many,mallY miles from t he sea leapingfor fun and such salmon on be­ing caught ront ained no lice.

Occasionally he matched wits withflies.

Swimming gaily around the gullyone dull evening. he noticed apretty colored thing dangling overhim. It hovered for a while. skim­ming the water again and again infront of his eyes. Then just forfun he made a swirl upwards at theseemingly live attraction-it flewout of reach. This was too muchfor the fighting spirit of King. themonarch of all river fish. and dis­regarding any thought of danger hedashed madly after this tormentingobject. It flitted across his vision

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and touched the surface and settledin the water for a second. In lessthan that time King struck . held onand ru shed hastily away. Sudden­ly he w as brought up sho rt as thesteel barb of the hook went into hislower jaw. deeply set. Losing allsense of reason he went to the sur­face and swirling around andaround he endeavored to get awayfrom the stinging in his jaw-of allthe difficulties he had encounteredthis was the worst-there was nogetting away. Swimming up ordow n the gully. he was slowly andrelentlessly brought back. Evenunderneath the stones in the deep­er holes he found no respite ; hewas pulled slowly and steadily tothe surface. Frightened. King he ldback and then suddenly he made adashi ng leap in the air and zi ng !went the thing that had held him.

• The steel barb st ill in his mouth asa medal for courage. he swa mmajestically to the spawninggrounds to fulfill his mission inlife .

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:JJuetOh , come ~tid.f'Y Clancy and take me 3\\·ay.Far out of this horrible smelly old bay ,And (,"drry me off to Sew York or Calcutta .

.And feed me on strawberries. cream and fresh butter.

011, no .\"ellic Dooley. I'll malT)' yOll here,And we'Il have a fine wedding with plenty of beer,But I' ll not move an inch from this beautiful bay.So make tip your mind and we 'll mention the day.

Oh. t-rue! M Ick Clancy 10 leave me to rotIn this forsaken hole. sure pm don't carl' a jot,So I swear that 1"11 not put Illy neck in your halter,t 'nlcs.. it he Rome or ~fadrid or Gibraltar.

Then farewell and goodbv to )C Nellie me girl ,You can start walking now and encompdss the world.But remember] said there is no place to stay.lIalf so sweet or so grand as this beautiful bay .

Then Nelfie forsooth packed her bag in a huff,And set off in her best bib-and-tucker and muff,Away from the garden and kitchen and sink,III search of a pa lace and perfume and mink.

BUI London was lonely and Frankfurt was bold,In Paris t hey spoke like they all had a cold,\\' h i le all that she got for her lunch in M ila n\\'as a stale piece of meat called "American Spam."

H this is the wa~ that the)" neat you abroad,Says she to herself. then the world 's a great fraud,And all that one reads in those hard-covered books\f mn he written hy gangsters and liars and crooks.

Oh, come Mickey Clancy and lake mc away.Far back to the beautiful Newfoundland bay.And feed me on 'raters and fish a nd hard lack,Oh , fly to me Clancy . I wa n t to go hack.

- PAUL MAHER.London, England.

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J.lIu lai llg the Ilest of TI.illgsby MELBA LENT

THEsilver lining, said to clothethe interior of each cloud. could

look pretty tarnished to a youngperson miles from home with acase of tuberculosis. It takes a braveheart and hardy sp ir it to keepbunting at that cloud until the sil­ver shines through . But that hasbeen the attitude of Newfoundlandpatients at the Weston Sanitarium.just o utside Toronto , and some areeven turning the expe rience to th eiradvantage.

Coming inland to mak e th eirfo rtu nes, man y o f th e 2 5 New ­foundlanders now tak in g treatmentat the sanitarium . found them sel ­ves sudde n ly incapac ita ted and hos­pi talized for sy mp to ms not muchwo rse than a bad co ld. After th einitial shocked and depr essed feel­in g, however, the y were able also toaccept the situation philosophically.fit into the active lif e of the hos­pital. and eve n turn calamity toth eir ad vantage, The po licy of th ehosp ital is to enco urage cheerful ­ness and o utside interests 'w h ichdo n 't tax the pa t ien ts' stre ng th to osevere ly. There art pa r ties andmo vies. ear pho nes - so thatpatie nts may liste n to the radio ,lessons in hand icraf ts and oppor ­tunities to study subjects w hichwill he lp the patien ts make a liv ­ing when they are well enough totake jobs. A mo bile librar y sup­p lies books and the patients' coun­ci l eve n gives the patie nts a voicein hospi tal ma nagement.

Cases among Newfoundla ndersran ge from Vera Snow, of Clarke's

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Beach , who was hosp italized withperitonitis so o n aft er she arrived inT oronto . and became a tuberculosissuspect durin g that tim e. to Mrs .J oan Penney, o f Bad ger , whosebaby was born in the San,

Youngest Newfoundland pa ­tient , 13 -year-old Eddie Oldfordfrom Burnside . Alexander Bay. andII -year -old Vera Roberts of Cor­ner Brook , both go to school inbed and keep up with the ir regularlessons . Eddi e came to T oronto ayea r and a half ago and ha s beenin the sanitarium for a year of thattim e. He is in a ward with fiv eo the r bo ys and they pl ay cards andb ingo together and make model a ir­pl an es, V era ha s been in the sani­tarium since last N ov ember and thehi ghligh t o f her week is hermother 's visit with a basket of ex ­tra special food. Between times,she colo rs bo ok s and plays withher Ch ristmas doll. Barbara AnnScot t. But her red hai red ro om ­mate ga ve her away- w hat V erareall y lik es best is to lis ten to mur­der m ysteries o n the radi o :

Llewelly n Ho lw r ll. fro m St.John's, also goes to school in bed ,although he thought his school days\..'ere over a number of years ago .In Toronto for only three yea rs,he had to give up his job as a su­pervisor fo r Canadian Food Prod­ucts when he ente red the sanitar­ium. Now he is app lyi ng his timein bed to getting we ll and to learn ­ing Fre nch and bookkeepi ng sothat he can advance to better jobswhen he gets his discharge . In the

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meantime, his chief visitor is h iswife. whom he met and marriedduri ng that three -year span.

Eric Pittman . of Larnaline. ismore interested in the gains of theimmediate present. A carpenter bytrade. he learned to mak e jewelrywhen he arrived at the sanitarium.In fact. he sold about $200 worthof his wares duri ng his first sixmonths in 'he hospital. and foundthat his most difficult 'ask waskeeping enough jewelry in stock to

show off. His wife. w ho used '0be a Salvation Army Officer in St.John 's. visits him every weekendand brings 'he th ree yo ungsters. burthe rules of 'he hospital forbidchildren under 14 rea rs entering ' h ebuildi ng so 'he fat her has '0 co nte nthimself with sneak peeks th roughthe vestibule . His greatest consola­tion , he says. is that his wife issuch a wo nder ful woman that 'heirhom e wi ll be run al mos t as smooth­ly as thou gh he were ' here.

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Another jewelry enthusiast isMrs. Dorothy Baird of St. .loh n 's .She also is getting ple n ty of k nit­ting and sewi ng do ne. but learningto mak e jewelry was somethi ngnew. She came to Toronto in Ja n­uary . 1951 . with her husband. w howas tak ing a special Depa rtment ofVeterans ' Affairs course at Sunny­brook Hospital. Seven monthslater. Mrs. Baird discovered she hadTB. When her husband finishedhis COurse on the construction anduse of artificial limbs. her treat­ment wa s still in its initial stages .so special arrangements are beingconsidered '0 allow Mrs. Baird '0be transferred back '0 SI. John'sso Mr. Baird can continue his work.

Min nie Anderson. of Burgee. asprightly young lady who appearsto get a tremendous bang o ut oflife even in the midst of adversity.sa ys she has n 't bothered '0 learnany ha ndicrafts-she jus' ta lks ! Sheand her husba nd came '0 Torontoa year ago to vis it her sister. Min ­n ie says she go t a co ld on top of acold-"I we n' to a doctor, andhere' s w here I landed !" She refuse d'0 let her hu sband go ho me w ith­o ut her. so he fo und a job in T or­o nto and stayed. Mi nn ie's o therdiversion . besides ta lki ng. is p lay­mg "500." She 'a ugh , her room­mate ho w '0 play and now th eydo it whenever they aren't obligedto rest. M innie is able to get aroundand visit some of the other patie ntsin the wing . and since three of'hem are Newfou ndlanders. 'heirto ngues clatter a mile -a-minu te.

Dawn Connolly. of St. .lohn 's .Lo uise Reid. of Mack insons. andPhyllis Ra nkin . of Coley 's Point,are the ot her three. Dawn, who

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Dischar ged. but still at the hos­pital. is N ewf oundlander LloydLeew ood . Lloyd made such a nichefor him self while h e was a TBpatient at th e San . and was so wellliked . that whe n he was welleno ug h to go o ut on his own again.he wa s offe red a job o n the Sani­tarium switchb oard . and there yo ucan find him for several hours outof each da y. He also gets that "lit­tle bit of New foundland " into theSanitarium magazin e-The Link ­by writing articles in dialect.

Undesirable th ou gh a bout ofT B is. th ese Newfo undlanders ad.mit that th e expe rience is mademuch more agreeabl e than theywould ever hav e dreamed possible.Arrangements are made so that thepati ents pay only as much as theycan afford . and special emphasis ison the future and training for anadequate job that won 't be toostrenuous. And above all . al­though onl y about 25 of the 666patients are Newfoundlanders. thereis an inv isible grapev ine that con­nects th em all. and each Newfound­lander can pass J visitor o n to atleast two o r three mor e. It seemsto add a feelin g of kinship thathelps th em in th eir time of need .

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worked in T ooron's. on Water St ..would lik e to tak e up photographyas a career. but since it isn 't a sub ­ject that can be practised in bed .Dawn conten ts her self with learn ­ing to mak e jewelr y and knitting .Sh e had been in Toronto only sixmonths wh en sh e was sent to theSan last lovember. but she hope sit w on't m ean more than a ye ar inbed. Loui se tells much the samesto ry. She had been in Torontoo nly five months wh en she becam ea sani taru rn pat ient last May.Phyll is. how ever. is on th e finallap of h er treatment. She wasoperated on in December and hopesto be discharged thi s summer.

When she does leave she will befollowing in th e footsteps of ByronFroud. wh o ha s received his dis ­charge since I fir st visited th epatients in the San itarium last D e­cember. Byron used to work onthe boats back home in Old Perli ­can but cam e to Toronto in 19 49to make his fortune . Like the othertuberculosis patients. he landed inthe Sa nitarium soon afterwards, andstayed for a year and a half. Muchof that time was spent nat on hi sback for he had TB of th e spineand had to be op erated on. How ­ever, he is now pronounced " fit."though he won 't be able to workat hard manual labour as he usedto .

UncleSamuelAndTheCrackie

A Short Story

by MURIEL SAINT McKAY

T HESE days people call littlefrisking , no -account dog s

" mongrels", but back where I comefrom they called them crackies andthey didn't apologize for the meither . I never even heard aboutthoroughbreds until Uncle Samuelwheedled the Widow Simmons intogiving him her yellow dog calledTeeney. Rightly speaking , though .I guess I was the one who wentwheedling to Mrs. Simmons, andUncle Samuel wheedled me into do­ing it .

Uncle Samuel lived in a dirtylittle two-storey house with whathe called a " linny' built on theback . That linny was the best partbecause he used to store his "w in­ter keeping" apples out there. Theywere too hard and sour to eat butthey made a great base for a snow­ball . He used to try to sell them .but all the local people knew they

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weren 't any good, and the peoplefrom St . John 's came dow n only inthe summer when the y were smallgreen knobs on the trees. Pop saidhe couldn't sell them then but he'dbet plenty if the y came a bit ear­lier he'd have tried to sell them theapple blossoms. Pop said he wasnothing but an old sleveen , whichis certainly the best way I know ofsaying a fellow is sly and mean andhyp ocritical without wasting words.But I thought Pop was pretty hardon Uncle Samuel.

One summ er mornin g-the sum ­mer I was going on ten-I wasfishing for tomcods over our stage ­head and Uncle Samuel came alongand sat down, friendly lik e, besideme.

"Good day for fishin ' , b'y." hesays.

" A ye," I grunted . I was in nomood for a cuffer with him thatday . Pop had just brought me anew bamboo rod from St. Joh n'sand I wa nted to try it in peace.

" You ain 't th rowin' yer line outfar eno ugh. Here , better let melearn you about fish in ' for tom ­cads. "

" No thanks," I said." Come on , b'y . don 't be so

cuss'd contrary,"I said no . I was having none

of him .He didn't say anything for a

while after that . Just sat back onthe stage-head with his eyes nar ­rowed, the way he always did whenhe was thinking.

"D'vou ever think of sellin' themtomcods to them people from St.John 's ?" he asked all of a sudden.

"No, I haven't ." I said shortly ."Oh, well, ain 't got much busi -

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ness head on ycr shoulders. Likeyer father-yer bodyll have toslave because you ain 't got no busi­ness sense-no head to do it easy­like. Now take me. dyou eversee me slave with my hands ' D'you .b'y ?

I had to agree that I never had." A n' why not ? Because I got

a proper busin ess head . It takesbrains. b'y . brains. I makes enoughmoney to live on. yet I don 't dono work . D 'y ou know how I man­ages that great accompleeshment.b'y? "

" How?" I asked ." L ike I said . brains : Watch

close, Wi llie. You can learn plentyfrom yer U ncle Sam uel." H eleaned ove r to me and put his armacross my shoulder. "Now, Wil­lie, I was wonderin' would yo u findit in yer heart to do me a sma llfavor ,"

I was wary but I idled my hookabove wa ter so I co uld concentratebett er.

"Jest a sm all favor , mind yo u.Yo u' re the best friend I got, Wi llie.If yo u was n' t I wo uldn 't tell youwhat I'm ga in' to tell yo u now. Aman do n' t go aro und layin ' hissecret tho ughts open to the wi nds- fair or foul. "

I was impressed . looked atUncle Sa muel and his eyes werewer. I drew in my line togetherand laid my bamboo aside.

" W ill ie. like I said , you're theo nly real friend I got. I lives alo ne.b 'v , an ' life gets awful lonely whenyou ain 't got a soul to speak to.So I was figurin ' it ou t. an ' I saysto meself . I says. 'Samuel, whatyou needs is a dawg .' Now. theWidder Sim mo ns got that you ng

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crackle and that big brute of aNew fo undland daw g too. Now.Willie. what would she be wantin'with two dawgs and th e big oneequal to thr ee daw gs by hisself'Besides. look at th e grandchi ld renshe go t to climb on her kn ee. IfI had grandchildren lik e that d ' youthink I'd hold on to all th em daw gsif I knowed of a old man what go tnot a chick or a chi ld to his nam e ?"

1 felt suddenly very sorry forUncle Samuel. Life was pretty un ­fair to him wh en yo u look ed at itthat way .

" W illie." he went o n. " like Isaid. you 're the o nly real fr iend Igot. Now, will yo u do a smallfavor for me?"

" I s' pose- if I could ." I said." W hat do you think about the

Widder Simmons hav in ' all themdawgs ?"

" She only got two.'"Yes, but like I told yo u. it' s

equal to havin ' three or four , Threeor four dawgs and a swarm ofgrandchildren-an' I ain't got asoul. Now, d' you think she gotright to all them dawgs?"

" No, I guess not. Not wh enyou look at it like that. "

" W hat other wa y is there oflookin ' at it , b 'y ? Now, if I wasto go an ' ask Widder Simmons forthat small crack ie she got. d 'y outhink she'd give it to me ' No , shewouldn 't . But if you was to goand socter say. 'Mrs. Simmons.'

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you'd say. 'yo u sure got a lot outerthi s life. Take all th em daw gs yo ugo t. Wh y, th at New fo undlanddawg is as good as thr ee. An' allthem beaut iful gra ndch ildren: An 'ther e's poor Mr. Samuel Hi ggin swhat ain 't go t a ch ick or a child ofhis own . Onl y th is rnornin ' I seenhim ervin '. he was th at lon ely.Now . I was w ishin ' I could get alittle daw g to keep him company­say a little daw g lik e T eeney her e.I s' pose seein ' as how you got somuch . yo u'd alm ost want to givehim T eeney.' An ' wh en yo u tell sher that an ' she sees jest how hardI go t it. her womanl y h eart 'Il burstopen in her bosom an ' she' ll passo ver T eeney lik e as if he was aslice of loaf bread . '

All of a sudden I rememberedhow Pop called him a sleveen. Inar or wed my eyes th e way UncleSamuel nar ro wed his. " W hat wouldyou do with T eeney aft erwards?"I asked .

" W h y, hark of th e b ' y ' Whatwould I do with Teeney ! Ain't Ibeen tell in ' you how I needs some­one for compan y. I'd lov e thatlittle crack ie like he was- yes, likehe was a child . Co me now . Willie,go on while it' s on yer mind. I'llgo up to the hou se an ' wait. You'llbe like a kind of--of a arb eetrator. '

I took th e sho rt cu t down thebeach and up th e drung-that's aword we use for a narr ow road orlane-and I was at \Vi dow Sim -

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mon s before I'd had time to goo ver U ode Sam uel 'S sto ry morethan twice to ge t it fi xed straig htin m y mind .

It worked too. Wido w Simm on shad tears in her eyes when I wa sf ini sh ed a nd she not o n ly gave m eT een ey but a b ig partr idg e-berr yjam tart still warm from the o ve n.

"Feene y was a pret t y little dog.and I didn 't blame Uncl e Samuelfor taking a liking to her. I wouldhave liked her for myself and good­ness knows I didn 't need a dog forcompany. W e had more kids andpeople in our house than we hadbeds to put th em in ,

After I helped Uncle Samuel eatthe tart . we got a pi ece of blue rib­bon and ti ed it around T'eenev 'sneck , Sh e look ed so pr ett y, andUncle Samuel seemed so fond ofh er, that I had to keep running mysleeve across my eyes. I knew Iwas too big to go cr yin over Un­cle Samuel's love for a dog.

After a while Uncle Samuel saidhe wa s going to tak e Teeney outto stretch her legs. He didn 't askme to go so I tho ug ht I"d bettergo h om e, I fo ol ed around at fish ­ing for a bit , a nd th en I decided towalk down to th e sa ndy beachwhere th e city people we re all ly­ing in th e sun.

J co uld see eve n fro m a distanceth at all th e peo pl e w ere ga the reda ro und in a so rt o f c ircle. an d whenI go t close who sh ould be in thecentre but U ncle Sa m uel andTeene y.

The city people was sayingthings about Teene y lik e, " W h a ta cut e little fellow: " " Isn' t he adear . sweet pet:" But Uncle Sam­uel seemed to be paying no atten -

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tion at all. I thought how em ­barrr ssed m y P op w ould be if hewere surrounded w ith a crowd o fhalf nak ed people like tha t. I f ig­ur ed U ncle Sa m uel was a pr ettysmart man to be so-s-well. so rt o fpoi sed . I g uess yo u'd call it.

A woman-c-c fat woman withbul ges stick ing o ut o ve r th e rim ofh er bathing suit-went up andtickled Teencys ears . " Y o u sweetthin g '" she said and pi ck ed her up." W ill you sell her ! " she said quick ­like to Uncle Samuel .

Right then my heart turned over,and I thought of a ll Pop said aboutUncle Samuel. But I was sorry foreven thinking lik e that becauseUncle Samuel said :

" No, ma'am, ' Lo w I wouldn'tpart with Teene y. Why. she's ari ght down thoroughbred dawg .C omes from a long lin e of famousdawgs. She go t all the sweetnessand faithfulness of a big New ­foundland dawg inside that littlehide of hers. No, ma'am. "

The woman put down the dog.disappointed like, And then a manst eps up.

" T h at do g seems to mean a lotto my wife. Sure you w on 't sell? "

" Sell Teeney ? You 'r e askin ' meto sell that littl e daw g r" UncleSamuel took o ut .1 red han dkerchi efand blew hard o n hi s nose,

' T il make it worth yo ur while."The man dr ew a w alle t from hispocket.

" No." Uncl e Samuel sa id." P lease,' th e fat woman pleaded .

"We're go ing ba ck to town toda y,It"s such a dear little dog ."

" Pe rha ps we co u ld find anotherlike it around," the man said.

" A no th er! I ' lo w there a in 't

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anoth er like T eeney in the country.Lik e I sa id sh e com es from a longlin e o f famous daw gs."

" Yo u can 't fool me." th e mansa id, " T ha t's only a crack ie, butlm willing to pa y yo u ten dollars."

Uncle Samuel shoo k his head butI w as w atching prett y clo se againnow and I saw his eyes narrow intoslits. and my heart turned overaga in. I started to edge clos er.

' T il give yo u fifteen , and that 'sfinal. " The man mad e as if to p utth e w alle t awa y,

"Shes all I got." Uncle Samuelsaid . but this time even blowing hisno se o n th at red handk erchief didn 'tfo ol me,

"T ake it o r leav e it ." the mansaid ,

I go t down on my hands andknees and crawled in as close as Idared,

"Well. a poor man getter eat.H e can 't let a little daw g stand inth e way o f hi s bead an ' butter ,For fift een dollars-well , for fi f ­teen dollars- "

The man took o ut a ten dollarbill and began co un ti ng out th e restin silve r. I th ou ght o f th e poorWidow Si m mo ns a nd h er kind h eartand th e fresh tart that I could st illta st e in my mouth , And I th ou ghto f Po p and th e wall o p ing I'd ge twhen h e kn ew , I figu red I'd ha veto act prett y smart to save my skin.to say nothing o f T eenevs, So Istood u p quick and grabbed Teeneya nd darted through the crowd andup th e road towards th e Widow'shou se, before Uncle Samuel evenhad tim e to put away his handker­chi ef.

L ike P op said , I guess UncleSamuel was a sleveen.

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I T is late A utumn. and the streetsof Grand Falls are strewn with

dead leaves.The birch and poplar. which art

so common in the garden lots alongpractically every street in this in­land town. have changed their sum­mer -long coat of green and hav!taken on a mantle of red and yel­low.

In front of every home is a blan­ket of dry leaves . resting unheededto rot and enrich the soil fromwhich their stalwart bearers havedrawn their life moisture. They areundisturbed. too. except for the oc­casional gust of wind which carrythem along on its wings only todrop them again in the lull of somebuilding or ornamental fence .

Townsfolk here are perhaps bet­ter reminded of the recurrence ofthe seasons than in most towns inthe Province-if a reminder is need­ed. Falling leaves on every handserve as a memento of the approachof a "dead" season-\Vinter. Andso on. as the cycle of tree life be­gins again in the Spring with thebuilding of new leaves,

The mystery of nature is veryevident in Grand Falls. Built in agroove of coniferous trees, whichgrow abundantly on both sides ofthe valley. the town would be anatural haven for rechnicolor.

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are part of everyday surroundings.and people relax in their shade dur­ing scorchin g summer days withoutgiving much thought to the peas­ure at their finger 's tips. There isa miniature park in every frontgarden.

Visitors to Grand Falls have of­ten been impressed by its beauty.And they have reason to be. Co;;'­plete and efficient management hasbuilt the shapely town. but naturehas touched it off in a manner un­equalled in most places. It hasbeen called a " grea t, big , beautifulgarden." where boys and girls liveamid trees and flowers . They havelearned to respect them , too. Apartfrom an odd stolen apple, there isno destruction done to tree growth.

At this season of the year . thebeauty of tree growth reaches itspeak. Although the town will nottake on a distasteful look when thetrees have all shed their leaves . itsphenornen will have lost some ofits eye-catching appeal.

Natural beauty. such as that seenin Grand Falls. stretches far out in­to all parts of the valley. A motorride along a 20 -mile stretch ofpaved highway offers a feast ofAutumn scenery . The sight whichstrikes the eyes on scanning thesloping countryside forces even themost indifferent to gasp in awe atthe sublimity of the scene. It bringsout the truth of the statement, "Athing of beauty is a joy forever ."

Renew§)by MICHAEL P. MURPHY

O !': the picturesque So ut he rnShore. twel ve m iles fro m Fer ­

ry la nd . si te o f Lord Balt im or e' sColo ny. and fifte en m iles so uth ofth e w orld' s most fam ous lighthouse.Cape Ra ce. lies the settlem ent ofRen ews . o ne of th e oldest settle­me-nts in N ewfoundland.

Possessin g much scenic app ealfor the lover of natural beauty. Re ­news is situated on forest -crestedhills that slope down to a land ­locked harbor o ver three mil es long.

'Tl-e first settl ers in Renews cameo ut from th e Old Cou ntry underLord Falkland in the early part ofthe seve nteenth century . Recordsshow that it wa s visited by SirRichard Whitboume. John Guy .Sir William Vaughan a nd otherprominent figures in our early his ­tor y. Even before permanent set ­tlem ent began ther e. R enews was ahav en for fi shin g vessels from Por ­tu gal. Spa in. France and England .and it is recorded that th e celebratedJa cqu es Cartier sto pped ther e in15 ) 6 to replenish hi s sup p lies o fw ood and w ater. and subseq uentlymade J record voyage to St. Mal o .

An o ld d irectory of th e year18 6 5 list s under th e ca p tio n " Re­news" th e nam es o f " A la n G ood ­rid ge \'j So ns. merch ants : \V ill iamJoh nston. p la nter: \V ill iam Kell e­grew. merch ant ." The Johnston sa nd Kellegrews hav e lon g sincebeen ex tinct in th e set rlernenr . andth e fam ou s G o o dridge firm . in ex­istence for w ell o ver a ce ntury. hav e

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bee n o ut of bu sin ess for severalyears, Cond ucted fo r man y yea rspas t by Mr. Fr ed Good ridge. wh ostill has a ge neral sto re o n the northside of th e har bor . th e Good ridge so w ned a fl eet o f fas t saili ng vesselsthat carried fis h fro m R enew s topracticall y all parts o f th e w orld.In th e h ey-da y of th e firm . scor esof " jacks" o r small fishing vesselssa iled out o f Renews for th e fishinggro u nds. T oday. however. the"jacks" are practicall y non -existentand . in common with many otherfishing settl ements in Newfound ­land . there are very few men en­gaged in th e fisher y in Renews.Most of th e fish caught is sold atthe fish plant of Si Moores in th enearby sett lem ent of Ferrneuse. andthis p la nt has proved itself to be aboon to the fisherme n all up anddow n the Shore.

No visitor to R enews can o m ita visit to th e beautiful Grotto ofOur Lady o f Lourdes. erected in192 7 throu gh the effo r ts of th e Rt.Rev . M on sign or C. M. M cCarthy .th e gen ial P ari sh Priest . A nat iveo f Ireland and lon g-time pa stor o fthe sett leme nt. M on sign or Me­Ca rthy had th e help of every manin th e parish in the erectio n of th isbeau tif ul repl ica o f th e Shrin e atLo urdes. Franc e. It is si tua ted nearthe C hu rch a nd is bu ilt o n th e h is­to ric Ma ss R ock . w he re. acco rd ingto lo cal trad it ion . M ass wa s cele­brat ed tw o centuries ago, In th erear o f th e G rotto is th e M idnight

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Hill, so called from the traditionthat Mass was secretly celebratedthere and the people gathered therefor prayer in the penal days, Inci­dentally. the Mass Rock at Renewsis the only rock regarding which wehave such J tradition in Newfound­land.

Two of Newfoundland's mostfamous sons. Capt. William Jack­man and Capt. Arthur Jackman.were born in Renews. Wheneverand wherever feats of courage anddaring are told in this country. thename of Capt. William Jackmanwill always be remembered for hissublime feat of heroism in swim­ming out (0 sea twenty-seven timesand bringing back each time a su r ­vivor from the wrecked vessel SeaClipp"r at Spotted Islands. Labra­dor. on October 9th. 1867. Capt.Arthur Jackman. his brother. isalso famous in our history as oneof our greatest seal killers. Capt.Arthur. a remarkable and redout ­able character in nun)' ways, was asea-dog of the old breed, and itwas he who brought CommodorePeary north on his first Polar ven ­ture back in 1886. As a daringa nd courageous seaman he was sec ­ond (0 none, and the people of Re ­news are justly proud of their asso ­clarion with him . "Toda y. the Jack ­ma n f.rrnil y still oc cupy a promin ­en t place in the busin ess and sociallif e of the little setr lcrncnt .

Besides its scenic attractions. Re­news has many ponds and riverswithin easy reach to attract the ang­ler. A few miles to the south liesChance Cove which at one time wasJ busy fishing centre but is now un­inhabited. It is still much frequent­ed by anglers and is ncar the bar­rens between Cappahayden andPortugal Co,", South where goodshooting rna)' be had during thepartridge- hunting season.

Today. Renews with its neat.well-kept homes is much smaller inpopulation than it was even fiftyyears ago. Lik c other outports.many of its sons have to obtain em ­ployment in other parts. But withthe present concentration on fisherydevelopment and despite the poorfishery of the past summer, thepeople of Renews ace looking for­ward to the future with a spirit ofoptimism that is shared by the peo ­ple of other settlements along theSouthern Shore.

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ILetters to The Editor IEdilOr Atlam ic Guardiuu :

~I y first words III list he thanks 10

and ~ollr staff for agaiu puttingour 100c1y lillie hook on the mar­

ket , \'"C so missed it during theperiod it was 1101 published. Lbavejust arrivcd home after- a visit to Xew­fouudland : the fir",' in thirtv-one vcars,

and was delighted with our visit. \\'c\ isitcd SI. John'S and spent three daysIhe re. T heil we visited Bell Isla nd and

spent a few days there. (I worked therefor 17 yc;n-...) . II ha- changed consid­crabl v. '," c went around Conceptionnay 10 It t) Rohcrt- ; Ihere have hccnlIlany improvements in recent years .

<--.;pccia lly i ll t he t ransport ation a nd

motor traffir-. Be ll Is la nd had oulj

find th at there arc 900 011 the Island.So nice 10 find the paved roads in SI.john' ... in ... read of t he old cobb le stones

of \"a le r Street . Great improvementswere also noted outxidc of St. J o h n ....in building... and homes..-\h oge lher we

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