Le Petit Nord, or, Annals of a Labrador harbour . the*efficacy of the cure be nullified. He is an unself-ish man, a thorough believer in his own gift;and last summer, for instance, right in the mid-dle of the fishing season, he walked thirty milesthrough swamp and marsh ridden with blackflies, to see a sick woman who desired his the spell of his buoyant personalitydoes bring comfort and relief. In the adjoiningsettlement of Bareneed lives an enormously fatold woman of seventy-odd summers. Life passesover her, and its only effect is to make herrotund and unwieldy. When the sick co
Le Petit Nord, or, Annals of a Labrador harbour . the*efficacy of the cure be nullified. He is an unself-ish man, a thorough believer in his own gift;and last summer, for instance, right in the mid-dle of the fishing season, he walked thirty milesthrough swamp and marsh ridden with blackflies, to see a sick woman who desired his the spell of his buoyant personalitydoes bring comfort and relief. In the adjoiningsettlement of Bareneed lives an enormously fatold woman of seventy-odd summers. Life passesover her, and its only effect is to make herrotund and unwieldy. When the sick come toBrother Luke for treatment, if any of the fewdrugs which he has accumulated chance to havelost their labels — a not uncommon contingencyin this land of mist and fog — he takes down alikely-looking bottle from the shelf, and tries adose of the contents on this Mrs. Goochy — andf 139 1 LE PETIT NORD awaits results. If nothing untoward transpires,he then passes the medicine on to the Goochy has a strong acquisitive bias, and. raises no objections to this vicarious argues: I does nt need un now, but therebe*s no tellin*. I may need un when I cant getun. Occasionally the sailing is not so we were there the doctor saw a case ofa woman from whom this ^sculapius had at-tempted to extract an offending molar, his onlyinstrument being a kind of miniature winch[ 140 ] ANNALS OF A LABRADOR HARBOUR which screws on to the undesired tooth. Its ac-tion proved so prompt and powerful that notonly did it remove the tooth intended, but four
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