schoolmaster-miner

Updated: May 28, 2025

"What's the use of goin' all the way from Nova Scotia to Caribou," says the Boy to the Schoolmaster-Miner, "if you haven't learned the way to make a window like the Indians, out of transparent skin?" Mac assumed an air of elevated contempt. "I went to mine, not to learn Indian tricks." "When the door's shut it'll be dark as the inside of a cocoa-nut."

Elizabeth Robins - The Magnetic North