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Show ' envy women who got great sealing catch BAY OF EXPLOITS. N Fi .lune 9 .j The women of Tilt Cove are the; nride and the envy of Hie bay today. I In a season ot failure in the sealing industry, Hicy have scored a catch anJ : I kill of size. Wives and daughters sue-Jceeded sue-Jceeded where the men of ihe bay hail . I failed. The ice was still running on 'this northern coast, and Hie men had ; gone far out to find the seals that for low il. The wife of the light kepper on Gull island saw signs of the herJi on the ice, sent word a.-hore lo the , women of Tilt Cove and marshaled them into a sealing erew. They went in boats, armed with 'clubs and gaff.-- and climbing onto itbe ice takes, set out to round up a catch. They found the seals sprawled1 Ion all sides, and learned later thai J l hey had struck the main patch, the-j ! hope of all seal hunters. The women went about their work With vim and had captured or killed 1U0 seals when exhaustion and ap-1 preaching nightfall compelled them tp cease their labors and make their I catch secure. When the men came back they were given the taste of strip ping the pelts and rendering the oil. |