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Show LIKE ONE LARGE FAMILY. Psople of Newfoundlana Have No Need of Hotels. I neeeVi scarcely say thero are no hotels on this coast, and consequently no hotel bills. Tho traveler selects his own house when ho enters a settlement, set-tlement, walks In and sits down by the stove. Indcod ho scarcely waits for tho Invitation to "sit In" when tho family goes to meals, the people ot this coast being much given to hospitality. hos-pitality. When night comes on ho simply takes off his boots and stays-It stays-It may be he will have to sharo a-bunk a-bunk with ono of tho household, or perhaps ho has a bed In "the rflom;" that dopends on iris soclaiposltlon. It room Is short ho will turn In on a settle, or simply llo down on tho floor. I havo slept on ft settle under which tho hens lived In winter nnd rested as soundly rs on nny feather bed, the only Inconvcnlonco bolng that now and nenln I had to grope after tho rooster, which persisted In thluklng It wig morning long boforo I did. Tbo ursl question asked a stranger on his entering a house will not be 'tWhut Is your business?" It Is certain cer-tain to bo "Havo you boon to tea?" For our national drink Is tea, and a drunkon man Is seldom or never seen. Indeed wo havo bocomo a prohibition coast. London Standard. i |