Harbor Jim of Newfoundland

al deliberation. Again, I had found my way to the little house, where n

'm finding it true more and more. It is true that the Lord giveth

wallet. I callated that since the Lord by wisdom founded

he bench with me instead of from the teacher. The teacher was so busy with fifty odd pupils, varying from four to twenty years in age, that he didn't have muc

old me about them once and I thanked

vocabulary. Your words don't look nor sound natural. You better start in putting them on

hook in his hand he said words that weren't in the dictionary, and that came near breaking the first commandment. I've got s

dn't refer to book knowledge when they wrote of wisdom, but rather heart and soul wisdom. The promise I re

is Bible, but before

u would disturb 'em by setting down, but this book wasn't no where to be seen and once I asked a woman to let me look at the Book, and she

oung fellow with the rest, I used to sail over to the French Island of St. Pierre and smuggle in a few gallons of rum. But it n

fe and I have lingered longest at the springs. We've marked them and there's a good many of them and we haven't found them all yet. She has helped me mark 'em. A fisherman's hands get a bit calloused and clumpsy and she does most of the markin', but I do my share of the

new promise, I hand over the book to her and she underlines it. Then the fa

. It was very much worn; its leaves were thumbed and now

dn't miss them, perhaps the clearest one is this, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall

ent, though few folks seem to search there for the Blesseds

e they that

ransgression is forgive

h unto Thee, that he may dwell in Thy courts: we shall be sati

e that conside

rength is in Thee, in whose h

me to a favorite spring we'll halt a moment

s charge over thee, to ke

t parsons read the Bible too fast. They go scurryin' thru the readin' like

y God; I will strengthen thee, yes, I will help thee; yea,

I satisfy him and sh

ed of 'em over there. Struck me as kinder queer. But I reckon He meant here just what He said, as He does elsewhere. It's His intention to have long li

swer him. I will be with him in troub

bring thee hea

lasting light, and the days of

thee, neither shall any pla

his reading, "that there were so many

he continued slowly turning the page

ord and He shall give thee

e Lord shall be

eth to the end

not only to mark springs but t

ay have been intended for others and not for us and that very night,

u and your children.' How co

o put up sign-boards of my own now, so I'll never lose my way again. There is no use to camp in dark valleys when just beyo

ether King Agag was hewed to pieces o