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work in one year and its opening in the next. It
could also devote attention to logging camps and
trolling stations during the days intervening between
each week end closed season, namely from Monday
until Friday night each week.

In Times of Need. I close with two or three
incidents of interest. At one logging camp a little
girl, coming out of her father’s house to greet a young
boy companion who was just returning from hunting,
was shot by the accidental discharge of the latter’s
rifle. The bullet passed through the top of the right
lung. The first-aid man at the camp rendered
assistance and the doctor was sent for. After a
ten-mile trip in a launch he arrived and gave treat-
ment. He stayed right with the child for two days, |
but then had to return to his practice. The girl was
moved down to the little community where the
doctor had his headquarters so as to be under his |
eye. She lay between life and death for many days. |
The family was poor, and there were four other chil- .
dren to be looked after in the little cabin at the camp.

Sundays the father was free, so Saturday afternoon
a couple of weeks after the accident, the mission
boat ran up to the camp and offered the mother
a trip to see her little daughter over Sunday. Need-
less to say the offer was gladly accepted. Father
kept house at home, and the mother spent Saturday |
night, Sunday, and Monday morning with her sick
girl, something which would have been impossible
for her had it not been for the mission boat, as the

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