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SEA FISHERMEN BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WALLACE. {Copyright by the How the Story Started. Frank Westha have:, known _ 88 _ "Shorty," lives at Long Cove on Ray o Fundy coast with his mother He unels, 'Captain Je Clark. ard his chum Semuel Ring, drink 8 bottle of rum, whereupon Frank's uncle tells him the story of his fath- er's fondness for drink snd how the "Grace Westhaver" went down Basie Jeland with ten of bet crew pr er s r. t $ fect pe . He finishes school with credit to himseit and spends the summer as an apprentice to "Long Dick" Jennings. In August his uncle takes Lim on a fishing trip as spare hand aboard the Kastalia which has now reached the Great Banks. oft and CHAPTER FIVE--(Cont'd.) Musson Book nd mio REY a \& the two on watch, retired to their bunks to catch on sleep. It was clear they arrived off Cranberry Island and negotiated the channel into the harbor, tenanted, as usual, by a fleet of fishing vessels. There were many Gloucester men among them, and as the Kastalia swept in-the crews shouted rough greetings and enquired of the pros- pects outside. ; ; "What are all these vessels in here for?" enquired Shorty of a fisherman. "Waal, some are waitin' for bait 1 cal'late, an' others are laid up, an others are jest spendin' their time, loafin' here til th' cod comes crawlin' aboard." . "How is it that we kin git our bait host waitin' like these fellers for 1 The successive dories were prepared and launched in a similar manner, but when they swept astern the first dory painter was handed down to "How? Waal, sonny, it's causé you hev an uncle what hez a long head on 'him, an' makes his arrangements t' it a supply long before. Yer uncle ez a good name among th' trap fel- 7 E. them and made fast to their stern'lers ashore here, an' they'll oblige becket, while theirs was belayed to him afore anyone-else--'sides that he the vessel's taffrail until another dory allus pays a little more'n the other was launched. Thus in twenty min- feller, an' it pays in th' long run." utes there were two strings of five! Shorty nodded, "Tell me," he asked dories each towing from the port and after a pause; "how. is it that an Am- starboard quarters of the vessel, and erican vessel like we are kin come Frank was mopping the perspiration inter a Canadian port an' git su from his face. A man has to be plies? I thought American vesse sprightly on his feet and quick with couldn't enter a Canadian port unless fingers fo handle dory painters with it was for shelter or water, or to re- the schooner sailing at a five-knot fit after' damages." clip. i The oracle bit off a quid before re- "Let gol" cried the" skipper. The plying. "Neither they can, son. An last dory in the starboard string hove American vessel hez: no right t' enter their buoy over, and while the line 8 Canadian port onless, as you say, | was running out made one end of the to git necessary supplies or shelter,| baited trawl fast to the anchor. When but an American vessel kin git _bait,| anchor and buoy-line had run its ice, an' stores ef she takes out a Mody length, the dory-mate tending the Veevendy (Modus Vivendi) license by trawl sung out, "Cast off!" And the payin' th' Canadjan Government a dory painter was unfastened from the dollar'n half a ton on th' vessel's stern of the dory ahead of them, registered tonnage every year. She's while the schooner towed the rest of entitled to them special privileges ef a i g%¢ ce EEE 1zifee, i 2 7 i .fiét and heavy sea-booted £ Look out for 'their knives!" bawled a man whose hand was drip- Bing blood from an ugly slash, and horty saw him drive his boot into the face of the man who had cut him, Hake that, ye dhirty, knifin' swine!" he growled, and turning, he smashed ther man on the mouth with his bleeding fist. % The little French boy ¢owered into the doorway of a shed and looked on with frightened eyes, while dutked in and out of the tussling and struck wherever he could see a swarthy face. : : (To be continued.) £ k Dyes never streak, spot, tade; Synthetic Leather. "A newly patented leather substitute, | tor soles of shoes, is made by boiling together leather dust, asphalt, cotton fibre and linseed oil, tie mixture, when reduced to the requisite consistencs being formed into a sheet by hydraulic pressure. It is waterproof. en MO etn The smallest bones in the human body are in the ears. A 3 . + namin. v Minard's KTniment for Burns, ete. She Sews. : She's always mending aprons or making bits of Jace, She hasn't time to lock out at a pass- ing face, The lads of Camden are nothing to her-- Only the sound of needles or the wheel's whir. She was born a dreamer, but she neyer leaves her room, : She sweeps up the thread ends with a little broom, And what she is thinking and what she knows in Is less than the sound of the wind when it 'blows. get anywhere if the the string on. In this manner--a flying set--the whole string of ten dories were scat- tered over some four miles of sea and left to set their baited trawls into the waters of the Bank. When the last dory had been left, the schooner was put about, the tail-rope belayed to windward, and the vessel jogged to "leeward of the string. "Now, Frank," said his uncle when the cook had left the deck to attend to his culinary duties below, "ship th' penboards an' git th' pews out. Then ye'd better give th' cook a hand cn' fill his lamps. Lots o' work for spare hand abeard a fisherman." And while | she takes out th' Mody Veevendy, an' "this craft hez one o' them things." * | When they came to en anchor Shorty went ashore with his uncle in a dory, and while the skipper was ar- ranging for a supply of ice and bait the boy wandered off to look at a dingy-looking French brigantine lying at the end of the wharf. She was a wonderfully ancient craft, seemingly | manned oy a huge 'crowd of swart- skinned Breton fishermen. Her masts ; : seemed stayed anyhow, the foremast| She's Siways seine aprons. or. had a decided rake over the bows. making bits of lace, while the mainmast canted aft, and| She hasn't time to look out at a pass- both spars were hung with rigging ing face, which looked positively ragged with! The lads of Camden are nothing to She was born a gipsy, but she never seeks the road, Nor follows after pipers with a gipsy load, Neither moon nor water makes her catch her breath, Perhaps she knows that love is as hard as death. p y did not first lay their plans. : Canaries on the Farm, Raising canaries is a fascinating pastime for the woman on the farm and a profitable pastime too; for pre- vious to 1914, the greater number of these little gongsters were imported from -Europe, but with changed con- ditions the supply fell off, and can- aries now command-prices undreamed of ten years ago: First of all, let me tell you that by keeping a canary in a cage you are|" not depriving one of God's creatures of liberty, - Canaries have been raised in captivity for hundreds of years. Due to this fact, they have been transformed from the little gray- brown bird of the Canary Islands, to a yellow or green and yellow singing bird entirely dependent on man for its food. To freg your 'pet canary is a crime, for the bird would starve to death. In selecting 'your pair of birds pick young birds, and it ig best not to have them both yellow. Liveliness, neat clean plumage, and smooth, non-scaly legs are the best indications of healthy birds. Having bought your birds, you must consider the cage. One or ran, | 8 += vr]. AD hig uncle steered up and down the line frayed Irish penpants and, chafing | of dories Shorty busied himself ship-{gear. Upon the foremast there hung| ping the penboards, which form the four scandalized yards with the sails] divisions on deck into which the fish tied slovenly upon them, while the| are pitched; getting out the forks or shrouds sagged for want of setting up, | "pews," cleaning up the remains of and the braces and running rigging the herring-bait. cutting, and filling streamed from. aloft in unsightly and cleaning the cook's lamps fore and bights. A line of ragged washing was aft. | strung across the deck between the Thus the days passed as they wan-| masts, a few dried cod hung in the| dered from berth to berth and Bank | rigging, while over the stern depended | to Bank. It was good fishing weather; a string of what Shorty deduced were, fish were striking good, and evenings Skate fins. Rust and dirt predominat-| saw the pens piled with gleaming cod ed, and the boy contrasted this lum- and a sprinkling of haddock, hake, and | bering French hulk with the trim, pollock. Sometimes they fished in yacht-like American fisherman upon "flying sets" as described, and at|which he was sailing. other times they anchored with the| While he was staring down upon the her--. : Only the sound of needles or the wheel's whir. | measuring 14x20x12 inches would do 'nicely. A wire or willow nesting frame is also essential. Do not put your birds together until late in the 'spring. A too early start What Is Your Plan? only incurs loss. Supply nesting ma- We are all familiar with the milk-| terial--short pieces of string, grass, maid, who, when" carrying a pail of ete. Maddm Canary will spend milk on her head, got to dreaming of | NeaTLY two weeks in construet- what she would do with the shilling| ii her nest. From then on she should get for the milk, gave her; Until setting time she' will be a head a toss, and lost her chance to! VEY busy bird. Feed lettuce or raw make a fortune, - The book of fables apple freely at this time. When the ends the tale with the warning: --Harold Vinal. nest has been completed and the three "Don't t your chickens before] OF four sea-green eggs laid, it is the they ons a jickens be | father bird's turn to work; for after big eight-inch manila fishing hawser over the bows, and the dories rowed out from the vessel and fished in po- sitions with the schooner as a com- mon centre. It was «hard work. Rousged out before sunrise to bait up the trawls, setting tub and tub all day long, pitching out the fish, and in the evenings "dressing down," "salt- ing,' and "kenching" by the light of lamp and kerosene -torch until the a ainda here was af son of someone shrieking in the : : forecastle, and a little boy De vun.| Dolly, the milkmaid, has been a very ning out on deck hotly pursed by a| Much underrated young woman. In- man, who beat him unmercifully about Stead of having been used as.a_hor- the body with a rope. The lad cower- rible example all these years, Dolly ed down in a corner endeavoring to, should have been used to point a shield his face with his arms, while moral and adorn a tale. For Dolly has [the great brute beating him threw this much tobe said in her favor: ;down the rope and started in to use! She had a definite plan. I am of the opinion, however, that madam has finished laying she begins the thirteen-day brooding period, and her mate must provide her with food and keep 'the eggs warm while she exercises, ""At the end of the thirteenth day, if everything has gone well, you may ex- pect a wee, naked birdling in the nest; [1 and another one each day thereafter until, all are hatched. This is the wearied body almost dropped from |thuds as the man drove: his heavy! sheer physical exhaustion. boots into the little body roused all, Shorty -took his 'share: with the|Shorty's anger, and before he was crowd, ' He tended dories, shipped aware of it he found himself on the m-boards, cleared up decks, and oiled | deck of the brigantine and rushing] mps, and when. the loaded boats |for the tormentor. : | care alongside he held the painters! "You big swab!" yelled Shorty, and' and helped hoist them aboard when picking up e belaying pin from the the fish had been pitchforked out. In rail, he caught the astonished French-| dressing down the fare he prepared man a stunning blow on the side of the dress keelers or gutting tables, | the head which dropped him to the filled the wash-tubs, and saw fo it that. deck, the gutting and shacking knives were! "Come on, kid!" . he shouted to the ath. He kept a tally of the "count" boy cowering and. crying on the deck. 'the dory-mates counted the fish |"Cut en run!" And grasping the lad | 'they caught--and checked up the by the arm, she hauled him to his feet! 'kenched" or piled salt fish in' the and hold pens. Incidentally he learned the correct way to ealt and th cleaned fish 1d learned the evils v : iT hustled him over on to the wharf. ! | theiz, activities. 4 (his seabooted feet. The sickeming| Never mind if her aim 'was nothing | more than to bedeck herself with glad raiment and capture a man. There was something she 'wanted and was going after. Therefore; I submit that Dolly, instead of being frowned down as an empty-headed dreamer, should be lauded for. having a purpose. Aimlessness is the curse of society, the cause of ninety-nine per cent. of all the failures. Make a canvas of your acquaintances, both men and wo- men--and we might as well include maidens and youth; boys and girle-- eet) and find out how many of them have a definite purpose in life, som the | ot which they are aiming, to Hey ate being all their en h by which they are directing all Only a small per critical period. The greatest losses occur after the young birds are hatch- ed.| Feed the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, keep the food and water dishes clean and well filled and let nature 'take her course. I want to impress upon you how very necessary it is that the birds be kept free from 'molestation. It is hard to refrain from peeping et the babies every other minute, but upon that very 'thing rests your failure or success. Let us suppose that you have takeg 'my advice, and the young birds have vn until they fill the nest and be- gin to stretch their necks to ses the 'outside world. Now you must supple- cracker dust. Mix the two ingredients 'together until you have birds will thrive on this food. e the young ones are four 'When you are sure t "leat by themselves, move ment the boiled-ogg ration. with|; a paste. The| will leave the and learn | Great Lakes, The work has been highly sys- tematized, and is being conducted by (the United Btates Fisheries Bureau in co-operation with our own Cana- dian authorities. The scale on which the artificial propagation of the white- fish is being carried on may be judged from the fact that in the Jou og the Bureau hatched 93; pig planted 420,000,000 the whitefish Lakes has been increasing ever since 1917. 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