Cape Breton's full o' niggers whose folk run in there durin' aour war, an' they talk like the farmers--all huffy-chuffy." "That is not Scotch," said "Pennsylvania." "That is Gaelic.

So I read in a book." "Penn reads a heap.

Most of what he says is so--'cep' when it comes to a caount o' fish--eh ?" "Does your father just let them say how many they've caught without checking them ?" said Harvey.
"Why, yes.

Where's the sense of a man lyin' fer a few old cod ?" "Was a man once lied for his catch," Manuel put in.

"Lied every day.
Fife, ten, twenty-fife more fish than come he say there was." "Where was that ?" said Dan.