. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ^H! r â li) vt ;,' I;.;* U|('.- j :i||vi 1 in;u|-> < !||v il' ' <; ^'t â 172 NEW YEAR'S DAY. âRACKET WALKING. CHAFFER XL New Year's Day â How to walk on Rackets â "Fish, dogs and seal," the general topics of conversation â Obtaining skeletons â Larch poultices â "Small Talk â Low temperature â Deer stories â Trapping â Indians â Up the river â At the Missionâ Harnessing the puppies â A racket Saturday, January i, 1881. New Year's clay pa
. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ^H! r â li) vt ;,' I;.;* U|('.- j :i||vi 1 in;u|-> < !||v il' ' <; ^'t â 172 NEW YEAR'S DAY. âRACKET WALKING. CHAFFER XL New Year's Day â How to walk on Rackets â "Fish, dogs and seal," the general topics of conversation â Obtaining skeletons â Larch poultices â "Small Talk â Low temperature â Deer stories â Trapping â Indians â Up the river â At the Missionâ Harnessing the puppies â A racket Saturday, January i, 1881. New Year's clay passed much like any other day here, and differed little from either the Christmas or Thanksgiving that had preceded it. The "old wife's" saying, that the twelve days after Christmas determine the weather for the twelve months in the year, is here strongly and strangely believeil, espec- ially by the elderly people. I am of the opinion that, generally, the people are rather inclined to superstitions. Sayings like the above, together with such as the month *' comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb," or the reverse, are frecpiently quoted ; and though half in jest I fiincy them to be more than half believed. One will find a very fliir practical example of the use or belief in the value of Herschel's weather tables by the moon, here in the old wife's almanac. Such elderly ladies almost invariably inquire when the moon ajjpeared before telling what weather may be exi)ecte(i. Strange as it may be, they seldom assert that the weather will be " so and so," but say** I have always noticetl;" or " the last time" it was so and so, so and so happenedâthus they predict the fu- ture from the past. I made my first trial to-day of walking on rackets. Racket- walking is a feat very difficult for a stranger to acquire readily. The motion is different from anything I know of; the peculiar swing of the btuly nuich like that of a sailor
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