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Show Bounty e larren Shore. In bygono tltn3 It was tho practlca of tho Newfoundland toast folk to appropriate ap-propriate everything they secured from shipwrecks, but this lawlessness had to be sternly repressed. Now tho unwritten rtilo Is that they gut "half their hand," or 60 per ceut at salvage. In portable nnd valunblt articles, such as silverware, thero Is still a Btronp 'eraptatlon to keep tho whole, but the punishment Is severe. Champagne, liquors, cabin stores and the llko havo also n trick of disappear lng, nnd In the poorest rlsher's cot-tage cot-tage you will come upon raro china, dainty napery, silverware of prlco and wlnos to tempt an epicure. McCluro's. |