Harbor Jim of Newfoundland

her mending, poked the fire and soon had tea brewi

r again," Mrs. Jim said as she poured the tea. I noted

Jim says the only way to have plenty is to use what you have. We always keep a pot handy and there's always a ready chair, for

rt. If I should ever write a story, which I ain't likely to do, with my little learnin', I'd not stop there, but I'd let that end only the first chapter and I'd let t

give you another half chapter afore w

ly cut off a fresh slice of tobacco and crushed it into the bowl of his pipe, and I knew that for at le

iven the sign o' His good pleasure, there beyond B

ere the first night and we went to work on the flakes the ne

n' to be lived, and that vacationing then ain't best for either. In any case we never thought a travelling, for

ed one to the other and there's no better place for learnin' to conf

, but there is, and I reckon the sooner they face it, the better for all conc

ead, halos, I think they call 'em; now I callate that a home ought to have some kind of a halo over it and it's easier to get it fastened on just rig

h, Effie," and the fisherman

e'd split and spread for a spell. Now I know from the standin' point o' city folks fishin' clothes ain't very scru

heaven's color and often the sea borrows it, and that morning

be done and a sharin' of the burdens or the joys which ever you wants to call 'em. For I have found that some folks get their joys an

out to understand when we commenced an' wit

are more likely to need it than I. I'll leave it here behind the clock and when you need money, it's yours and bein' yours you don't have to give an

dren, trust her with his house and his reputation and his dispo

g is bad for a married couple and then how's a man able to judge the amount of an allowance anyhow

we had work to do and they had theirs and we both of us did it. The children of the neighbors was often round with us then, but they made us think of 'ourn that wa

ren she had more to do in doors, but she's always managed, if there was an extra run o' fish to come to the flakes and

, he crossed the little room and began winding the clock. I looked up and there, sticking out from

as in bed," he said. "We done

d and there were fast hurrying clouds breaking up and I could see the mo