Down north on the Labrador / by Wilfred T. Grenfell.

  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Down north on the Labrador / by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fitted Carrie ” (her older sister) better ; a fact that there was no contesting. The almost universal scarcity in the matter of wearing apparel fortunately made a false sense of modesty never any factor to be reck- oned with. No one remarked unkindly on Tommie Carlson when he appeared for the first time in his bread-bag trousers, though the virtues of its former contents were indel- ibly stamped up and down the legs. The old trouser leg transformed into a sweater or jumper for Jimmie MacKenzie, though its former function was very thinly disguised, attracted no particular attention ; nor did any one resent the appearance of Harry Gray when he succeeded in forcing a passage to school in the cast-off sea boots of his father, over the tops of which he could hardly see. In the mind of our little schoolma’am it only created a sense of admiration and gratitude that this dear little chap should set out on so arduous a venture just to get to school. No one else, however, was in the least surprised. For we all knew a little about the power of magnets. It was, alas I often the same with food as with clothing. When proper nourishing food was not obtainable, it was neither advis- able nor possible to insist on the little ones