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Show Bounty of a Barren Shore. In bygone times it was the practice ef the Newfoundland coast folk to appropriate ap-propriate everything they secured from shipwrecks, but this lawlessness had to be sternly repressed. Now the unwritten rule is that they get "half their hand," or 50 per cent as salvage. In portable and valuable articles, such as silverware, there is still a strong temptation to keep the whole, but the punishment is severe. Champagne, liquors, cabin stores and the like have also a trick of disappearing, disappear-ing, and in the poorest fisher's cottage cot-tage you will come upon rare china, dainty napery, silverware of price and wines to tempt an epicure. McClure's, |
