a very
good place for one's life-work.

We helped to lessen the tedium of the lectures by doing most of the
travelling in an automobile of my brother's, in which we lived, moved,
and had our meals by the roadside. The lectures took us everywhere
from the drawing-room of a border castle on the line of the old Roman
Wall--which Puck of Pook's Hill had made as fascinating for us as he
did for the children--to the Embassy in Paris.

Once more the Mauretania carried us to America. April was spent partly
in lecturing and partly in attending surgical clinics--a very valuable
experience being a week's work with Dr. W.R. MacAusland, of Boston, at
his orthopedic clinics in and around that city. He and his brother
"Andy" had passed a summer with us in Labrador. May found us in Canada
visiting our helpers, and stimulating various branches by lectures.
While loading the George B. Cluett in early June in St. John's,
Newfoundland, we organized an education committee to work with the
Institute Committee, to give regular educational lectures throughout
the winter. Dr. Lloyd, our present Prime Minister, and Sir Patrick
McGrath, always a stanch friend of the Mission, helped materially in
this new activity.

The Institute at the time was housing some of the crew of the
Greenland, who had come through the terrible experiences at the seal
fishery in the spring of 1914. Caught on the ice in a fearful
blizzard, almost all had perished miserably. Some few had survived to
lose limbs and functions from frostburns. The occasion gave the
Institute one of the many opportunities for a service rather more
dramatic than the routine, which did much to win it popularity.

Midsummer's Day and the two following days we were stuck in a heavy
ice-jam one hundred miles south of St. Anthony. My wife and boys had
arrived in St. Anthony before me, and to find them in our own house,
and the hospital full of opportunity for the line of help which I
especially enjoy, afforded all that heart could wish.

Early in July the Duke of Connaught, the Governor-General of Canada,
paid us a long-promised visit. It was highly appreciated by all our
people, who would possibly have paid him more undivided attention had
he not been kind enough to send his band ashore--the first St. Anthony
had ever heard. The resplendent uniforms of the members totally
eclipsed that of the Duke, who was in "mufti"; but he readily
understood that the division of attention was really not att