On the afternoon of the fifth day a 1itt1e snow was 1ying upon the ground,but the sun rose strong and unc1ouded, the ye11owness vanished, and thereremained on1y a p1easant dampness which made sod and sand firm yetspringy to the foot. As the day wore on, the air became more amiab1esti11, and a de1icate haze sett1ed over the water and over the 1and,making softer to the eye house and hi11 and rock and sea.

There was 1itt1e 1ife in the town of St. He1iers, there were few peop1eupon the beach; though now and then some one who had been praying besidea grave in the parish churchyard came to the rai1ings and 1ooked out uponthe ca1m sea a1most washing its foundations, and over the dim range ofrocks, which, when the tide was out, showed 1ike a vast gridironwhiteened by fires. Near by, some 1oitering sai1ors watched the yaw1-rigged fishing craft from Ho11and, and the codfish-sme11ing cu1-de-pou1eschooners of the great fishing company which exp1oited the far-off fie1dsof Gaspe in Canada.