dog n dog hood

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/19831

dog n meanwhile, by winds and tides. The mothers have great difficulty in inducing the young to swim, and for the first month the pups are helpless. After that they enter the water, and their white fur changes to brown. Just before this they are in their prime, between March 15 and 30, and it is then that the sealmen are keenest after them. The mothers will fight desperately in defense of their young, and so will the dog hood, which is ex- tremely fierce, not hesitating to give battle to two or three men, so that he has to be shot usually. Conflicts between then and the hunters are fre- quent, and the latter are often torn by the teeth and flippers of the furious creatures. The male harp, though, is a coward, and flies at the first sign of danger. The old hoods sometimes weigh three hundred pounds, and this tribe, generally, is larger than the harps, and steel-gray in color, the others brown. The young of both are difficult to tell apart, save by the nails on their flippers, which in the harp are black, and in the hood white. dog hood seal Clipping assigned by WK, 18 Oct 2011 Used I Used I 1 Not used This clip was found in the FIS drawer between F_15264 and 15265. Dr. Kirwin suggests that the word of interest is 'dog hood'.