responsibilities of the household. In the bleak land where he lived there is no shifting of these responsibilities. Everyman, and every boy, too, must do h

there are a thousand things that he can do, and make sport of as

, and did his share in jigging cod; and each summer Skipper Ed and Jimmy went to Skipper Ed's old fishing place-the place

he routine of the long winter, and brought with it the novelty of change. These promised weeks upon the open sea were always weeks of d

ar-away and mysterious land of civilization of which Skipper Ed had told them so

of the strange happenings in that wonderful land, and to hear them sing thei

rom the press. Or perchance-and this was a treasure indeed-an illustrated magazine fell to their lot. And no line of paper or magazine, even to t

ormy winter days and long winter evenings. And finally the illustrations and more interesting articles were clipped and pasted up

was always tinged with sadness and regret, for during t

ring day as he and Jimmy sat on a rock below Abel's cabin, looking expectantly out over the bay, while Abel, with Skipper Ed's

f we weren't so busy, Partner and I wou

dreadfully lonesome without you, too,"

e we on days when the sea

and it's always fine to

that!" decl

y, returning to the original proposition, "to thin

sked Skipper Ed, who had finished with the boat and,

Bobby, "at t

pper Ed. "I was thinking the same way, and Abel was t

be fine if we could all fis

oincidence!" declared Skipper Ed. "A

t?" and the boys j

d gloomy expression as he seated himself upon the rock.

sked Jimmy, in de

er Ed seriously, "I'm

u are!" coaxed Bo

t a partner, and one partner can't go ahead and do things unless the o

gave a wh

ner?" and Skipper Ed's

xclaimed Jimmy. "It's what I

f fish for all of us around Itigailit Island. Perhaps, then, we'd better go h

break the good news to Mrs. Abel, and Skipper Ed down t