A Heart's Content correspondent of the Boston Journal says : — WKat amuses one at first in these houses is the inevitable baby or twins in arms. There is a baby iu every house and cords of little children everywhere. But all the babies are the same age. To be sure, as the young lady remarked, " babies are always in season," but it did seem strange that they could all be born about the same time at Heart's Content. The life of the fisherman may possibly account for this infant phenomenon. At this seasoD, for iustauce, all tbe boys and nearly all the able-bodied men are at Labrador. They are absent all summer They returu in the fall. And this annual crop of juveniles, as Tony Weller remarked, "is the consekens of that ere manoeuvre.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 99, 30 April 1867, Page 2
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