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12<br />
DON'T DEPEND ON LUCK<br />
• will bring you more<br />
NATIONAL SAVINGS<br />
Open an occount at the<br />
NEWFOUNDLAND SAVINGS BANK<br />
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION<br />
•FRESH •FROZEN<br />
• CANNED 'SALT<br />
• SMOKED • SALMON<br />
• LIVE LOBSTERS<br />
Wholesole Distributors of all<br />
Newfoundland Products<br />
very interesting. Occasionally I find<br />
time to write the Rev. James Dawe,<br />
now stationed at Parham, Ontario.<br />
Evidently the Dawe Clan must be a<br />
large one.<br />
It has been many years since I left<br />
St. John's in company with Harry<br />
Wood, son of Rev. Arthur Wood,<br />
Rector of St. Thomas's Church. We<br />
were both headed for Tennessee and<br />
I doubt not that Harry is still there.<br />
Mrs. Watson and 1 have just celebrated<br />
our fiftieth Wedding Anniversary<br />
and among the guests was Mr.<br />
E. Stanley Story, son of an unusually<br />
fine type of minister, the Rev. George<br />
P. Story of SI. John's. If the good<br />
Lord spares mc, I hope to re·visit my<br />
birthplace, Rants Harbour, in Trinity<br />
Bay.<br />
Good luck to you.<br />
Yours very sincerely,<br />
Richard Furneaux Watson.<br />
e You will in this issue find a poem<br />
by Eli Miles which we think you will<br />
enjoy. It came in along with several<br />
others which also impressed us as expressing<br />
a great deal of the spirit and<br />
humor of Newfoundland. In a little<br />
biographical sketch Mr. Miles, whose<br />
letterhead proclaims him a contractor<br />
and builder of 15 Swan Street,<br />
Everett, Mass., says:<br />
"I was born at Bonavista in 1871.<br />
I left Newfoundland before the fire<br />
and have since covered most of the<br />
principal cities in the United States<br />
and Canada. I also spent some time<br />
in Alaska during the Gold Rush.<br />
Writing verse is one of my hobbies."<br />
So laconic a biography conceals,<br />
we are sure, an interesting and varied<br />
career of which perhaps we may hear<br />
more later. In the meantime we hope<br />
to see more of the results of "one of<br />
my hobbies".<br />
ATLANTIC GUARDIAN