A Visit to Newfoundland

Branch, Mary Lydia · 1922

Note: Images of the original pages are available through Memorial University of Newfoundland Centre for Newfoundland Studies. See http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/compoundobject/collection/cns/id/45824 I know where there is a poppy-bed by a broken fence, and a house belonging to the poppy-bed, where old Mrs. Pike lives. Mrs. Pike can neither read nor write, but she commands respect, and her face is eloquent with the wisdom of many years. I know a little one-roomed cottage where Jim Savery’s wife rears her children. The chairs are rough-hewn by hand and the legs are unequal. Jim is a fisherman, like all his neighbors, and his cod lie drying on the frames outside.…

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