ouse for our seedling vegetables.

Meanwhile the industry had been developed by a Mr. Beetz in Quebec
Labrador with very marked economic success; and in Prince Edward
Island with such tremendous profit that it soon became the most
important industry in the Province. Enormous prices were paid for
stock. I remembered a schooner in the days of our farm (1907) bringing
me in four live young silvers, and asking two hundred dollars for the
lot. We had enough animals and refused to buy them. In 1914 one of our
distant neighbours, who had caught a live slut in pup, sold her with
her little brood for ten thousand dollars. We at once started an
agitation to encourage the industry locally, and the Government passed
regulations that only foxes bred in the Colony could be exported
alive. The last wild one sold was for twenty-five dollars to a buyer,
and resold for something like a thousand dollars by him. A large
number of farms grew up and met with more or less success, one big one
especially in Labrador, which is still running. We saw there this
present year some delightful little broods, also some mink and marten
(sables), the prettiest little animals to watch possible. For some
reason the success of this farm so far has not been what was hoped for
it. Indeed, even in Prince Edward Island the furor has somewhat died
down owing to the war; though at the close of the war it is
anticipated that the industry will go on steadily and profitably. Are
not sheep, angora goats, oxen, and other animals just the result of
similar efforts? If fox-farming some day should actually supersede the
use of the present sharp-toothed leg trap, no small gain would have
been effected. A fox now trapped in those horrible teeth remains
imprisoned generally till he perishes of cold, exhaustion, or fear.
Though the fur trapper as a rule is a most gentle creature, the
"quality of mercy is not strained" in furring.

CHAPTER XIV

THE CHILDREN'S HOME

"What's that schooner bound South at this time of year for?" I asked
the skipper of a fishing vessel who had come aboard for treatment the
second summer I was on the coast.

"I guess, Doctor, that that's the Yankee what's been down North for a
load of Huskeymaws. What do they want with them when they gets them?"

"They'll put them in a cage and show them at ten cents a head. They're
taking them to the World's Fair in Chicago."

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People of every sort crowde