If the fishery has been successful, then the fisherman has a balance
coming to him after paying for his summer supplies, and is enabled to
lay in a stock of provisions for the winter.

Winter is the season for enjoyment among the fishermen. This season
for fireside enjoyments, home-born pleasures, is welcome. They have
their simple social enjoyments of various kinds. Dancing is a favorite
winter amusement among the fishermen and their families. Weddings are
celebrated with great festivity.

Newfoundland is often regarded as the very paradise of sportsmen. Its
countless lakes and ponds abound with trout of the finest description,
and these bodies of water are the abodes of the wild goose, the wild
duck, and other fresh-water fowl.

The pine forests are the home of numerous wild animals. The fox, the
bear and the caribou furnish the highest prizes for the hunter.




SELECTION IV

BRING BACK MY FLOWERS

A child sat by a limpid stream,
And gazed upon the tide beneath;
Upon her cheek was joy's bright beam,
And on her brow a blooming wreath.
Her lap was filled with fragrant flowers,