Transcriber's Note:
This e-text is full of Newfoundland and Labrador dialect, unusual spelling has been preserved.
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The ice in the big bay had broken up suddenly that year in the latterpart of March before a tremendous ocean swell heaving in beneath it.The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summerfishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on thelandwash. The dog-teams usually haul all this out at a stretch gallopover the glar