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Show LIKE ONE LARGE FAMILY. People of Newfoundland Have No Need of Hotels. I need scarcely say thcro aro no hotels on this coast, and consequently no hotol bills. Tho travolcr selects-his selects-his own liouso when ho enters n settlement, set-tlement, walks In and sits down by tho Btovo. Indeed he scarcely waltri for thrj Invitation to "sit In" when tho family goes to meals, tho pcoplo of this coast being much given to hospitality. hos-pitality. When night comes on ho simply takes off his boots and stays. It may be ho will have to share a bunk with one ot the household, or perhaps ho has a bed In "tho roOtn;" that depends on his social position. If room la "short ho will turn In on a settle, or simply Ho down on tho floor. I have fclept on a sottto under which the hens livod In winter and rested as soundly rts on nny feather bed, tho only Inconvenience being that now and again I hod to grope after tho rooster, which persisted In thinking If v"b morning long boforo I did. Tho tirst question asked a stranger on his entering a house will not be "Whnt Is your business?" It Is certain cer-tain to bo "Have you boen to tea?" -For our national drink Is tea, and a drunken man is seldom or never Been. Indeed wo have become a prohibition coast. London Standard. |