o call it Abel's Bay.

The bloody record of the tragedy had long since been washed from the
boat. From two of the six long oars with which the boat was fitted, Abel
improvised two masts. The tarpaulin was remodeled into a second sail,
and, one blustery morning, with their tent and all their belongings
stowed into the boat, and the dogs in the skiff, which was in tow, they
set sail for Abel's Bay, and left Itigailit Island and the lonely grave
to the Arctic blasts that would presently sweep down upon it from the
icy seas; and late on the following afternoon they reached the cabin
which for many years was to be Bobby's home.

Thus it was that Bobby, amid adventure and mystery, made his advent upon
The Labrador and found a home among strange people. And in such a land
it was quite plain that as the years passed he should have other
adventures.

CHAPTER III

SKIPPER ED AND HIS PARTNER

On that part of the Labrador coast where Abel Zachariah lived the
cabins, with small variation, are fashioned upon one general model. The
model is well adapted to the needs of the people and the exigencies of
the climate. At one end of the cabin is an enclosed porch which serves
as a woodshed and general storage room. Here the dog harness, traps, and
other tools and equipment necessary to the hunter's life are kept.

A door opens from the enclosed porch into the cabin proper, which
usually consists of a single room which serves as living room, dining
room, kitchen and bedroom. This room commonly has two windows, one on
either side.

The floor of the cabin is of uncovered planks. In the center stands a
stove shaped like a large box. In the lower half of this stove is the
fire space, adapted to receive huge blocks of wood. The upper half is an
oven.

Against the wall, and not far from the stove, the table stands, and
built against the wall at one side of the door, the kitchen closet. In
the farther end of the room are the family beds, usually built into the
cabin after the fashion of ships' bunks. In Abel's cabin there was but
one bed, and this of ample breadth to accommodate two. Now there was to
be another for Bobby.

Home-made chests, which answer the double purpose of storage places for
clothing and whatnot and seats, take the place of chairs, though
sometimes there are rude home-made chairs and Abel's cabin contained
two. Guns always loaded and within reach for instant use, rest upon low
overhead beams, or upon pegs aga