. Down North on the Labrador. ich seems de-veloped to supply the place of telegraph, 52 DOWN NORTH on The LABRADOR telephone and rapid transit. They seemoften to divine somehow what others arelikely to be doing, or to be this time they were all doomed to bemistaken. Before they left, they had all de-cided that either the dogs had eaten Jimmy,or they had all gone back on their trail andsafely lodged somewhere were just waitingevents. That is just where they were all ofthem wrong. When they neared the spot in-dicated by the doctor, some black dots in thedistance greeted their as
. Down North on the Labrador. ich seems de-veloped to supply the place of telegraph, 52 DOWN NORTH on The LABRADOR telephone and rapid transit. They seemoften to divine somehow what others arelikely to be doing, or to be this time they were all doomed to bemistaken. Before they left, they had all de-cided that either the dogs had eaten Jimmy,or they had all gone back on their trail andsafely lodged somewhere were just waitingevents. That is just where they were all ofthem wrong. When they neared the spot in-dicated by the doctor, some black dots in thedistance greeted their astonished gaze. Nosigns of death or destruction developed asthey drew nearer. As in their excitementthey covered the last mile at a stretch gallop,the scene before them assumed the very or-dinary proportions of two large dog teamsharnessed to two loaded sledges, and a smallboy patrolling quite quietly up and down be-tween them. A lump rose in some of theirthroats as they realized that little JimmyHampton was still standing IV A Venture in Economics SAM CARRELS house stood on theextreme end of the southern bank ofBig River—a site selected as a com-promise between the fur path in winter andthe fishing ground in the summer, out ofboth of which he made, or tried to make, aliving. The isolation of the position was alsoa compromise, for when Sam, as a youngman, had decided to settle on the coast, hischoice of a suitable spot had wavered betweena region where game might be expected tobe more plentiful and one where his pro-spective family might enjoy some of the ad-vantages of social life. His mind was largelyinfluenced by the experiences of his ownyouth. His fathers had been a very largefamily, and he had never quite won out incompetition with his neighbours in the New-foundland village. Indeed, it was that sternmother, necessity, that had forced Sam at theage of twenty-two to leave his own countrywith his young wife and to search for his landof promise in Labrador. The conundr
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