Whitecoats

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/77836

white a Occasionally this Westerly drift has occured in such manner that in the mad swirling of the ice-fields, what is known to the sealer as the "Main Patch" of seals has been brought so near in-shore on some p art of the Island, and with great masses of the Ice Floe placed in such a fortunate fashion, that the fishermen and planters of the near-by Outports have been reaped a rich harvest by working the seals from the shore - travelling in their quest, at the hazard of their lives and till far out to see, over the fickle and trencherous ice-pans. All such Springs have long been known in Newfoundland as "Green Bay Springs" - the name being derive d from one greatly- famed if quaintly-chronicled Spring of their description, which took place (as the name denoted) in Green Bay, one of the (over) [reverse] beauty spots of Newfoundland. On this celebrated occasion, the local historian of one of the Hamlets faithfully records that the"Whitecoats"(or young Harp seals) were in such large numbers and so favorably placed, that "even the women and the dogs made �10- a-man"! ! PRINTED ITEM <- over G. M. Story JUN 1970 JH JUN 1970 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 5 Not used white hawk; ~ bird; ~ cap; ~ game; ~ hawk; ~ jay; ~ministe; ~ partridge; ~-tail eagle; ~-throated loo; ~-winged diver; ~ winter gull; white daisy; ~ flower; ~ lily; ~ maple; ~ moss; ~ musk;, ~ snow-drops; ~ spruce; ~ top; ~ wood; white bear; white boy; Reverse of card at W_15045