r, like they call their
mate back out of the dark. I am sick for my old dog. Then I am proud he
has kill it, and wipe my knife on its fur, but feel ashame that I have
not check him driving it into camp. And then Rosalin throw her arms
around my neck and kiss me.

It is many years I have tell Rosalin she did that. But a woman will deny
what she know to be the trut. I have tell her the courtship had end, and
she begin it again herself, and keep it up till the boats take us off
Round Island. The ice not run out so quick any more now like it did
then. My wife say it is a long time we waited, but when I look back it
seem the shortest time I ever live--only two days.

Oh God, yes, it is three years before I marry the woman that not want to
marry at all; then my brothers and sisters can take care of themselves,
and she help me take care of maman.

It is when my boy Gabriel come home from the war to die that I see the
skeleton on Round Island again. I am again sure it is wash out, and I go
ashore to bury it, and it disappear. Nobody but me see it. Then before
Rosalin die I am out on the ice-boat, and it give me warning. I know
what it mean; but you cannot always escape misfortune. I cross myself
when I see it; but I find good luck that first time I land; and maybe I
find good luck every time, after I have land.

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