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Updated: June 13, 2025


"And now, my girl," said the doctor, "what's what?" By this extraordinary question delivered, as it was, in a manner that called imperatively for an answer Martha Jutt was quite nonplussed: as the doctor had intended she should be. "What's what?" repeated the doctor. Quite startled, Martha lifted the letter from her lap. "He's not comin', zur," she gasped, for lack of something better.

"Doctor, zur," said Matilda Jutt, when the children were put to bed, with Martha to watch by Sammy, who was still very sick, "is you really got a bottle o' Pine's Prompt?" The doctor laughed. "An empty bottle," said he. "I picked it up at Poverty Cove. Thought it might come useful. I'll put Sammy's medicine in that. They'll not know the difference.

"Well, that's for Santa Claus's clerk. That'll fix him. That'll blister the stupid fellow." "Please, zur!" whispered Martha Jutt. "Well?" snapped the doctor, stopping short in a rush to the stove. "Please, zur," said Martha, taking courage, and laying a timid hand on his arm. "Sure, I don't know what 'tis all about. I don't know what blunder he've made.

Presently there was nothing left of the bread and tea; and then we drew up to the fire, where the little Jutts still sat, regarding us with great interest. And I observed that Martha Jutt held a letter in her hand: whereupon I divined precisely what our arrival had interrupted, for I was Labrador born, and knew well enough what went on in the kitchens of our land of a Christmas Eve.

'No, says I. 'Thank God, that's the same schooner, makin' heavy weather o' the gale! ... 'There she is, Jutt! says he. 'Ay, says I, 'God help her, that's the doctor's sloop!

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