“I’ll be jiggered!”
Calvin Donohue turned to Billy Ketchum and said, none too pleasantly:
“You get out! We can manage our own affairs!”
Callahan suggested taking him out triumphantly in the iron kettle, but Billy disappeared with such haste they could not catch him.
Then the whole assembly took up seriously the problem of assessments, and before the day was out, the township of Middlebrook was equalized, and the taxes of the settlers, New Antrim and Thingvalla alike, were cut down to their just proportions, no more, no less, and the pine lands were assessed strictly in accordance with Eric’s estimate slips.
THE CURE OF FEAR
By Norman Duncan
Like many another snug little harbor on the northeast coast of Newfoundland, Ruddy Cove is confronted by the sea and flanked by a vast wilderness; so all the folk take their living from the sea, as their forebears have done for generations.