| Summary: | barking On a hill above Bauline stands the huge black barking kettle. There are still a few copper ones in Newfoundland. This one is made of iron, and looks like something out of a witches' scene in _Macbeth_. In spring they fill it with a tarry mixture (it used to be bark from the forests), light a fire underneath, and, while the aromatic smoke and steam drift down over the village, whole / trap crews cure their nets, steeping them section by section in the hot liquid to ward off attacks by airborne fungi, bacteria, and marine organisms. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story JAN 1970 JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I 'Macbeth' is underlined in quotation.
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