A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
Good Hope Trader Page 25

shells and rifle ammunition, would be along to introduce their wares. One day a Dominion Cartridge Company representative happened to be doing this – at Fort Good Hope & I sat on a pile of logs, watching him. He had just burst a potatoe to bits with an high powered rifle, and, as I was sitting almost immediately beneath where the “bursting” took place, I got well splattered.

But potatoe “splatter” was harmless.

He then told us, he would repeat his demonstration on a tin of peas. I was just about to move to some other spot as I didn't want a worse splattering than I already had, when a female tourist off one of the steamers, crowded in, pushing me up onto a most uncomfortable knot on my log. She acted so rudely, that

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