Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910a
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and brats and most of the provisions can not be attacked. If the man has two hands of flour one can be taken away from him. In general the people seem to be disappointed with Doctor Greenhill. They expect his services free and more calls. If he gives them the old clothes he gathers in the United States and asks them to provide a certain quantity of fire wood they need, he gives his services to the people and his medicine and if he charges so do they grumble at the exorbitant charges. It is the same way in regard to the schools. In the layin places the Dominion and government provide school mamas at $30 per month and when the charge of 50c per quarter and for school books is made they again grumble at the exorbitant charge. In the winter time it is so cold that often the mercury freezes in the thermometer. It keeps one person busy firing the stove. The men may be out for a time hunting or trapping but in general winter life is indoors in small poorly ventilated rooms. Doctor Armstrong said in the early spring are the people are seen down and very pale and that the rising generations are not as strong as the former one.